In most cases you have to get the login form before you can post it.
Try using iehttpheaders to create a log of the headers exchanged as you do
manual login from IE browser and then write your curl/php statements to
match what you see.

http://www.blunck.se/iehttpheaders/iehttpheaders.html

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From: curl-and-php-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se
[mailto:curl-and-php-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se]On Behalf Of Dave Fobare
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 10:51 AM
To: curl-and-php_at_cool.haxx.se
Subject: simple form filler problem

Under WAMP 1.7.2 on XP Pro, I'm trying to get the following simple form
filler to work:

$post = "UserID=myuserid&Password=mypassword";
$ch = curl_init("http://www.mysite.com/privatelogin");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $out;

All I'm getting out is the login page itself. I tried it another way:

    $curl = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.mysite.com/privatelogin");
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
"UserID=myuserid&Password=mypassword");

    curl_exec ($curl);
    curl_close ($curl);

and I get the same result. cURL is working; I've enabled it properly in
the php.ini under Apache2, and php_curl does show up as enabled on the
WAMP control panel. And I can run other cURL snippets. Those examples
above are directly cribbed from public sources, but I still must be
doing something wrong. Help!

Thanks,

Dave Fobare

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Received on 2007-08-12