PHP - Setting Cookie In Curl Does Not Work

I have a web application in which there are two php files index.php and  include.php .

include.php is loaded to a DIV tag inside index.php on click of button using Jquery . Both these php files share a common varible through cookie which is used to keep track of the data retrived by include.php . This variable will be updated each time include.php retrives data .
These php code work fine  Mozilla and chrome  but not in IE . When i checked the cookie value it is same through out without setting .

Please help .

Thanks in advance ,
Rahul

I'm trying to login to a site, navigate a couple of pages deep, and then scrape a table.  I had all this working, but the site changed their login workflow...and I can't figure out what I need to do to make this work.

The form used in a browser to login has itself as the action page.  In a browser, you are automatically redirected to another page, that puts a random get variable at the end of the URL.

Here's the main login page:  https://www.premiereaffidavits.com/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=webprime/login.html

When I run a standard curl login code...I only get the login page returned to me.  How can I get the redirected page (including the random GET variable at the end of the URL) that you get using a browser?  I see no javascript, or other ways for the action page to redirect to the second page you get in a browser.  What am I missing here?

I can generate login info if you need it.

Thanks.

Edited March 30 by bschultz

Hi,   I'd stumbled upon a problem around doing curl on an asp website which use cookie.   I use username n session id to determine the cookie file, on a case when a second browser open up it should have different session id, hence it may create new cookies instead of using the active previously-made cookie file, please do correct me if I'm wrong.   So question is....how to detect a user is logged or not in such situation ? Or perhaps how is the proper way to determine a cookie file in such situation ?     Thanks in advance,

Hey guys,
I have developed an script which opens or fetches a page using curl, now the problem is the url i am trying to fetch follows lot of redirects(say 302) and in between it stores several cookies also which i don't know or guess.
So i was just thinking, is there any way so that i can automatically store the cookies in a particular file which server wants to store, and let it sent in request as per the asking of a request  in request header?

I hope you would have got what i mean to say here, for example
suppose i want to open http://www.example.com
and now that above url faces lot of redirects probably 5-6 and then ends up on http://www.test.com

now in between it stores some cookies in clients computer and then it fetches them also. Since i don't know which cookie it gonna store, I must put this responsibility to PHP itself to store and send the requested cookies in request headers.

Also i want to send the referrer also in request header, and it must be the last page that or request sent to the server, no matter whether it's in betwen redirects or to the final page.

In short i mean to create the complete emulation of browser for this URL.

Hi to everyone, I'm new to the forum and I'm posting here because I ended up in a logical problem for my next script development. I need to get some data of external websites (with vbulletin board), perfectly legal. Using file_get_contents i can print the page content on my server and then use jquery's powerful selectors to get my data.   The problem is that these data are shown only to logged in users so i would need this script (maybe using cURL?) to either login to the external website and then persists the connection or maybe if the user who is executing my script is already logged in that website then use his login? (most likely impossible I think..)   This is my code so far (found on some sites and merged into this)

$data = array('vb_login_username' => 'Scanu', 'vb_login_password' => 'grgfgrgrfbtgbt');
$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_URL,            "http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/login.php?do=login"); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER,         true); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION,         true); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_FAILONERROR,         false); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,        false); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT,         true); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_HEADER,             true); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_POST,                 true); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,        true); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,     30); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,         $data); 
$result = curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch);


$pattern = "#Set-Cookie: (.*?; path=.*?;.*?)\n#"; 
preg_match_all($pattern, $result, $matches); 
array_shift($matches); 
$cookie = implode("\n", $matches[0]); 


$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_URL,            "http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/"); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_COOKIE,                $cookie); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER,         true); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION,         true); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_FAILONERROR,         false); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,        false); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT,         true); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_HEADER,             false); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_POST,                 false); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,        true); 
curl_setopt($ch,    CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,     30); 
$result = curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;
?>

It just shows the same page for unregistered users. Any help or advice is appreciated, i'm very new to this type of script..

Hi girls and boys

I am trying to set a variable if a session OR a cookie has been set, but am unsure on how to write the statement...

if (isset($_SESSION['name'])||isset($_COOKIE['name'])) {$variable = $_SESSION['name']||$_COOKIE['name'];}

Obviously not working there, but just need a pointer here.
any help is appreciated...

Hi All,

I'm trying to upload a gif file via php/curl, and the browser keeps interpreting the content-type as application/xml. I've tried explicitly setting the content type, see below, but it has no effect. Any thoughts? I've seen conflicting posts on the ability to specify the content-type with curl/php.

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curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
                                                "Content-Type: image/gif",
                                                'Content-length: ' . strlen($post)

                                                ));

why aint this working??

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<?php
                                if ($_COOKIE['watch_id']){
                                    $cookie = $_COOKIE['watch_id'];
                                    $cookie_query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM user WHERE cookie='$cookie'");
                                    if (mysql_num_rows($cookie_query) >= 1){
                                    ?>
                                    <li><a href="/index.php">Home</a></li>
                                    <li><a href="/cpanel.php">C-Panel</a></li>
                                    <li><a href="/logout.php">Logout</a></li>
                                    pass
                                    <?php   
                                    }
                                    if (mysql_num_rows($cookie_query) <= 1){
                                    ?>
                                    <li><a href="register.php">Register</a></li>
                                    <li><a href="#" onclick="OPEN_login();">Login</a></li>
                                    <li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>
                                   fail1
                                    <?php
                                    }
                                }
                                
                                if(!$_COOKIE['watch_id']){
                                ?>
                                <li><a href="register.php">Register</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#" onclick="OPEN_login();">Login</a></li>
                                <li><a href="/index.php">Home</a></li>
                                fail2
                                <?php
                                }
                                ?>

i have checked in the browser and the cookies match but it always echos fail2 which means that this line is returning false:

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if ($_COOKIE['watch_id']){

i have tried using isset but that didnt help either!

any help?

I know this has been asked before and I have searched but I can't find an answer.

I have a cookie that is set on a customers web site(yes I've tested it and it is defined) and I was going to use it to display certain info on my web site.

Sooo ... How do I get a cookie to work across multiple (2) web sites?

Thanks

page 1 is this

session_start();
include 'db.php';

$email = $_POST['email'];
$password = $_POST['password'];

$email = stripslashes($email);
$password = stripslashes($password);
$email = mysql_real_escape_string($email);
$password = mysql_real_escape_string($password);

$sql="SELECT * FROM directory WHERE email='$email' and password='$password' ";
$result=mysql_query($sql);

// Mysql_num_row is counting table row
$count=mysql_num_rows($result);
// If result matched $myusername and $mypassword, table row must be 1 row

if($count==1){

$wtf="SELECT * FROM directory WHERE email='$email' and password='$password' ";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($wtf))
  {
$fname = $row['fname'];
$lname = $row['lname'];
$address = $row['address1'];
$city = $row['city'];
$state = $row['state'];
$zip = $row['zip'];
  }
  
$_SESSION['user'] = $email;
$_SESSION['fname'] = $fname;
$_SESSION['lname'] = $lname;
$_SESSION['address1'] = $address;
$_SESSION['city'] = $city;
$_SESSION['state'] = $state;
$_SESSION['zip'] = $zip;
$_SESSION['status'] = "1";

page two is just: only the user and status works.
session_start();

echo $_SESSION['user'] ;
echo $_SESSION['fname'] ;
echo $_SESSION['lname'] ;
echo $_SESSION['address1'];
echo $_SESSION['city'] ;
echo $_SESSION['state'] ;
echo $_SESSION['zip'];
echo $_SESSION['status'];


why is that not working

A HTTP request is made to the server, Slim creates a Request and Response object, content in the Request is sent to another server using cURL via Guzzle, Guzzle returns its own Response,  and content from Guzzle's response must be returned by the original Slim response.

Would you recommend white-listing or black-listing response headers, and which specific headers?

Similarly, would you recommend white-listing or black-listing the request headers sent via cURL, and which specific headers?

Thanks

<?php
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface as Response;
use GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Response as CurlResponse;

class ApiResponder
{
    public function delete(Response $httpResponse, CurlResponse $curlResponse) {
        return $this->proxy($httpResponse, $curlResponse);
    }
    //other public methods...

    private function proxy(Response $httpResponse, CurlResponse $curlResponse) {
        foreach($this->getResponseHeaders($curlResponse) as $name=>$value) {
            $httpResponse=$httpResponse->withHeader($name, $value);
        }
        return $httpResponse->withBody($curlResponse->getBody())->withStatus($curlResponse->getStatusCode());
    }

    private function getResponseHeaders(Response $httpResponse):array
    {
        //Blacklist headers which should be returned to original client.  TBD whether I should whitelist headers instead.
        $blacklist=['Date'=>null, 'Server'=>null, 'X-Powered-By'=>null, 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin'=>null, 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods'=>null, 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers'=>null, 'Set-Cookie'=>null];
        return array_diff_key($curlResponse->getHeaders(), $blacklist);
    }

    /**
    * This method doesn't really exist in this class, but is just included to show which headers I am forwarding in the cURL request.
    */
    private function getRequestHeaders($clientRequest):array
    {
        $whitelist=['connection'=>null,'accept'=>null,'accept-encoding'=>null,'accept-language'=>null,'content-type'=>null,'content-length'=>null];
        return array_intersect_key($clientRequest->getHeaders(), $whitelist);
    }
}

 

ok guys,

another issue for me i cannot find an answer for.  according to this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8803994/php-mail-not-working-for-some-reason, mail() doesn't work when smtp is not configured properly.  I checked my server files and I do not have a .ini file.  am I spose to have one by default?  and, according to this question in the godaddy community: https://www.godaddy.com/community/Using-WordPress/PHP-ini-how-to-make-changes-using-cPanel/td-p/119704, configuration of PHP in general should be done in the .user.ini file instead of in php.ini.  the following code, which is what I have now, results in no mail being sent to my address so either my code is wrong or my configs are not set properly I'm guessing:

if( empty($errors))
{
    $to = '$myemail';
    $email_subject = "Demo Request Submitted";
    $email_body = "A demo request was submitted through your website with the following information:" .
    	"Contact Name: " . $contact . " </br>" . 
    	"Company: " . $company . " </br>" .
    	"Email: ". $email . " </br>" . 
    	"Phone: " . $phone . " </br>" . 
    	"Best Time to Contact: " . $best_time_to_contact . " </br>" . 
    	"Message: " . $message;
    $headers = "From: " . $myemail . "\n";
    $headers = "From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email\r\nReturn-Path: $email\r\n";
    mail($to, $email_subject, $email_body, $headers);

    echo "Your demo request has been sent.";
} else {
	echo $errors;
	   }

also, in the stackoverflow article I mentioned above, one of the responders suggests using PHPMailer as a better way to send mail using PHP.  Is that true?  I've always used mail() in the past and I've never been let down in terms of a message *not* being sent.  PHP.net says the same thing as the response from stackoverflow as well.   thanks!

Edited November 21, 2019 by ajetrumpet

Hi, probably a simple solution to this which I am overlooking, doing my first foray into using cookies.
So far all is well, but how do I make a cookie valid for both www.mysite.com and mysite.com

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if(isset($_POST['remember'][1])) {
    $session_id = md5($_SESSION['username'] . $_SESSION['last_login']);
    setcookie("session_id", $session_id, time()+60*60*24*30, "/");
}

Thanks, TS