note 76219 modified in function.curl-setopt by danbrown

if you are trying to connect to 'https://...' and after that want to work with POST data - that's the way: <?php $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)"); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookiefile"); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookiefile"); # SAME cookiefile curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "url1"); # this is where you first time connect - GET method authorization in my case, if you have POST - need to edit code a bit $xxx = curl_exec($curl); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "url2"); # this is where you are requesting POST-method form results (working with secure connection using cookies after auth) curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "var1=value&var2=value&var3=value&"); # form params that'll be used to get form results $xxx = curl_exec($curl); curl_close ($curl); echo $xxx; ?> --was-- if you are trying to connect to 'https://...' and after that want to work with POST data - that's the way: $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)"); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookiefile"); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookiefile"); # SAME cookiefile curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "url1"); # this is where you first time connect - GET method authorization in my case, if you have POST - need to edit code a bit $xxx = curl_exec($curl); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "url2"); # this is where you are requesting POST-method form results (working with secure connection using cookies after auth) curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "var1=value&var2=value&var3=value&"); # form params that'll be used to get form results $xxx = curl_exec($curl); curl_close ($curl); echo $xxx; http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php