Re: CURL de-bugging: So why am I not getting the results page on the target site?

My current theory on this is that the initial input page creates a per-session cookie. Is CURL able to send this when the page is submitted and if so how do I find out the name and value of the cookie as per my reading it is not stored on the computer, though I reckon it must be there somewhere. The initial page is in this format: https://www.targetsite.com/subdir/page.asp?serialno=GM201&OtherCode=&NextCode= So I have various GET parameters. The initial input page also has POST parameters which I can see the in page source, and so send via CURL. I cannot find any javascript doing a set_cookie, including in any included files of which there are none anyway. But there is some session going on as the serialno parameter is not in a hidden field or explicitly set cookie, so it must be a per-session cookie maybe with a different name, I reason. How do I find out about these? John ioannes wrote:

My code is as below. It comes back with 'Bad session variable name - CompanySerialNo' from the site.but the COOKIEJAR does not show this variable name and it is not sent, it just shows:

www.targetsite.com    FALSE    /    FALSE    0    ASPSESSIONIDQCSQDTAB    LKAONANAFJPNMFFECLFNCLBP

There is a serialno but that is sent in the GET (URL below). Question is: What to test now? I am trying to get a results page from an input page. What code below is trying to do is access the page, get any cookies set then try the page again with the relevant inputs. <? $url="https://www.targetsite.com/subdir/page.asp?serialno=GM201&OtherCode=&NextCode="; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookies.txt"); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookies.txt"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); /* //GET list from submitting POST form as GET https://www.shortstay-london.com/checkavail.asp? 1 - clock=+09%3A54 2 - &StartDay=6 3 - &StartMonth=September+%3A+2008 4 - &EndDay=13 5 - &EndMonth=September+%3A+2008 ....13 - &CheckThis=Check+This use this list to create POST data */ curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

     $curlPost=array();

$curlPost["clock"]=" 09:54"; $curlPost["StartDay"]="6"; $curlPost["StartMonth"]="September : 2008"; $curlPost["EndDay"]="13"; $curlPost["EndMonth"]="September : 2008"; //etc $curlPost["CheckThis"]="Check This"; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$curlPost); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION ,1); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $store = curl_exec ($ch);

     curl_close ($ch);
     print($store);

?>