using curl ... navigating to the *next* page

using curl ... navigating to the next page

inosent

to log in i use this and it works:

[syntax=php]
<?

$LOGINURL = "https://pacer.login.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/check-pacer-passwd.pl";
$POSTFIELDS = 'loginid=inXXXX&passwd=mrXXXX&client=&faction=Login&appurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpcl.uscourts.gov%2Fsearch&court_id=';
$reffer = "https://pacer.login.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl?appurl=https://pcl.uscourts.gov/search";

$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$LOGINURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$POSTFIELDS); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $reffer);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);

// curl_close ($ch);

// curl_close ($ch2);
print $result;

[/syntax]

now that i am logged in i dont know how to get to the next page

the html in the page above is

[syntax=php]
<label><br>Party Name</label>
<table style="float:left;border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td><span class="format"><b>Format:</b> <i>last, first</i></span><span class="field1"><br/>
<input type='text' name='party' id='party' size='40' onChange='' accesskey='p'></span></td></tr>
</table>
<table style="float:left;"><tr><td><p>
<input type="checkbox" name="exact_party" value="exact_party" id="exact_party"><span class="footer">Exact Matches Only</span>
<span class="help">
 <script type="text/javascript">
var hb11 = new HelpBalloon({
dataURL: '/help/Party-Name.xml',
cacheRemoteContent: false,
balloonSize: 'tw'
});
</script>
</td></tr></table>

</span>

</li>
<li id='ssn40'>
<label>Four Digit SSN </label>
<span class="field1"><input type='text' name='ssn4' id='ssn4' size='4' maxlength='4' onChange=''></span>
<span class="help">
 <script type="text/javascript">
var hb12 = new HelpBalloon({
dataURL: '/help/Four-Digit-SSN.xml',
cacheRemoteContent: false,
balloonSize: 'tw',
fixedPosition: HelpBalloon.POS_TOP_RIGHT
});
</script>
</span>
</li>
<li id='ssn_search'>
<label>SSN / TIN </label>
<span class="field1"><input type='text' name='ssn' id='ssn' size='11' onChange='' maxlength='11' accesskey='N'></span>
<span class="help">
 <script type="text/javascript">
var hb13 = new HelpBalloon({
dataURL: '/help/SSN-TID.xml',
cacheRemoteContent: false,
balloonSize: 'tw',
fixedPosition: HelpBalloon.POS_TOP_RIGHT
});
</script>
</span>
</li>
<li class="buttons">
<input type="checkbox" name="show_title" value="Yes" id="show_title"><span class="footer">Show Case Title</span><br><br>
<input type="submit" id="submit" value="Search" alt='Submit Form' />
<input type='button' id="clear" value="Clear" onclick="Form.reset('range'); removeErrors(); return(false);" alt='Clear Form' />
</li>
<input type="hidden" name="court_type" id="court_type" value='all' />
<input type="hidden" name="default_form" id="default_form" value='' />
</fieldset>
</div>
</form>
[/syntax]

when i run my search i get this header info

[syntax=php]
https://pcl.uscourts.gov/dquery
POST /dquery HTTP/1.1
Host: pcl.uscourts.gov
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: https://pcl.uscourts.gov/search
Cookie: PacerClientCode=""; PacerPref="receipt=Y"; PacerUser="in269601343141601 83J8nrzpdSw"; PacerSession="qBw72jrb05Dy2O971k1fNXyzgD2op9Kl4VZ08ooclRrg/U3JvzLvbARpQiHzDHH9RoTwGqfQTIItbjxVO9Kz0sI3Aeafdm8d"; default_form="bkb"
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 237
case_no=&mdl_id=&stitle=&date_filed_start=&date_filed_end=&date_term_start=&date_term_end=&date_dismiss_start=&date_dismiss_end=&date_discharge_start=&date_discharge_end=&party=bennett&ssn4=8165&ssn=&court_type=bk&default_form=bkb

[/syntax]

the second link then would be

https:// pcl.uscourts.gov/dquery?case_no=&mdl_id=&stitle=&date_filed_start=&date_filed_end=&date_term_start=&date_term_end=&date_dismiss_start=&date_dismiss_end=&date_discharge_start=&date_discharge_end=&party=enett&ssn4=4144&ssn=&court_type=bk&default_form=bkb

if i enter this link in the browser it takes me to the right page. however i am stuck with how to navigate after the fact in cUrl after the successful login

rebelo

I'm confused as to what exactly you're trying to do. If your question is: "How do I redirect the user to another location after the successful login?", then that's fairly easy. You will use the header() function to send a "Location: $URL" header after you've checked in your code that login was successful. For example:

if ($logged_in) {
  header('Location: /index.php');
  exit;
}

Note that this must be done before any other headers (i.e. any output) is sent to the client.

inosent

thanks for the reply. i wish i asked the question better.

once i initially log in, at this site in particular, it ends up at a page with a form.

i only need to fill in the blanks of two fields and submit the form contents. the resulting link looks like this:

(party and ssn4)

what i want to do, then, is after i log in is go to the above link. that is what i am trying to do.

thanks again!