On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Michael Sisson wrote:

> So if you use curlopt_cookiejar and cookiefile, then curl will automatically
> get the cookie on login and use it in the request?

If you use both options, curl will both read cookies from a file and use them
when communicating with a server, and it will store cookies it receives in a
file when done.

> Also, how do you handle the sending (posting) and recieving of data?

Generally speaking: CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS for posting.

> The way I understand it, the $result = curl_exec($ch); would put the info
> recieved in $result?

If you have CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER set, yes.

> Which in this case would be xml data and then I could just parse $result?

Yes, if the transfer worked.

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