curl and cookies

[kireol]

So I have a script that I wrote 2 years ago that uses cookies just fine with cURL.

 

I started writing a new script, so I copied and started editing the new script.

 

Now, the old file works with cookies and the new one doesnt.

 

I stripped the new file down to basics and found a simple site that uses cookies.  I verified with firefox that the site does produce cookies.  but they are not saved in the cookie file this generates.

 

Please help me figure out why.

 

<?php
function getpage($url)
{
$agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)";
$ch = curl_init(); 
      $cookies = "cookies/cookiejar.txt"; // Please set your Cookie File path
      if ($cookies != '')
      {
	if (substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3) == 'WIN')
            	{$cookies = str_replace('\\','/', getcwd().'/'.$cookies);}
	$fp = fopen("$cookies","w") or die("<BR><B>Unable to open cookie file $cookies for write!<BR>");
	fclose($fp); 
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookies);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookies);
}
else
{
	echo "COOKIES NEED TO BE SET UP\n";exit;
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
return($result);
}
$result = getpage("http://www.echoecho.com/samplecookie2.htm");
?>

[kireol]

I did a bit more testing and still stuck.  here's some more results.

 

 

If i change to stdout on the cookie file

 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, '-');

 

it DOES print out a cookie to the screen.

 

This cookie, however, is not saving to the cookie file.

 

 

If I copy and paste that cookie info, into the cookie file, then re-run the script, php clears out my cookie file back to null.

 

 

arggggggg!

[kireol]

nm, working now.  too tired to compare and see why.  bed time