Re: cURL & cookies

On 4/25/06, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:Oh, and here's the REAL problem: > > If you use CURLOPT_HEADER, 1, then, like, for some reason beyond my > ken, the COOKIEJAR/COOOKIEFILE stuff just plain doesn't get done. > > This really sucks if you need *other* headers and want curl to manage > the Cookies for you, but there it is. > > I'm not sure if I remembered to file a bug report on that or not... > > If the general conscensus on this list is that CURLOPT_HEADER "on" > should not negate the use of CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE and/or > CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, then we may want to file a bug report... > > But I strongly suspect that bug report would most correctly go to > curl, and not PHP, since I doubt that PHP does anything to screw this > up -- it's probably all in curl itself, no? > > Or maybe me and Peter are the only 2 guys on the planet that think you > should get to have both... > > -- > Like Music? > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Richard, On an application I was forced to write, the goal was to create an interface to another system on another server. I used cURL to grab the pages. Their system sent three cookies and used tons of redirects to set their session and validate logins. So basically I ended up with something like this: define('_COOKIEJAR', '/tmp/cjar_'. session_id()); define('_COOKIEFILE', _COOKIEJAR); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, _COOKIEJAR); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, _COOKIEJAR); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE); I'm sure this is all wrong, but it was all I could come up with. ;) I have headers turned on so that I can parse them to get the header redirect history so that I can track a sort of "browser history." Curl just reported the original url even though I was three redirects away from what curl thinks it is. My point is that I have headers turned on and the cookie jar files get wrote to /tmp. So am I misunderstanding that you said it is one or the other? Let me know if I'm wrong, thanks!