cURL Conundrum

[OllieMcClellan]

Hey there.

I want to login to my websites cPanel with cURL and then redirect the user to the cPanel. So far I have the following code:

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://mysite.com:2082');
@curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'myuser:mypass');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_exec($curl);
header('Location: http://mysite.com:2082');

This does not work, as it still displays the 'enter username and password' box. Is there a way I can make this log the user in and then direct them, without them having to manually enter their username and password?

If you require any additional info please tell me.

Thanks.

[NogDog]

Probably the problem is that the header redirect is processed by the browser, which will not have any cookies set by the cURL stuff that precedes it, since that HTTP request is from your web host, not from the user's browser.

[OllieMcClellan]

I tried setting CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR with the possibility of 'copying' the cookies to the web browser, but when I examined the cookie jar file after the request, no cookies had been set.