curl and cookies?

[dbo]

I'm trying to automate some login capability to an online service (webmail). I'm successfully posting the values to the page, but receiving a response that cookies are not enabled. Here's the code:

 

$url = "https://mail.mydomain.com/";
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, dirname(__FILE__) . "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, dirname(__FILE__) . "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "loginOp=login&username=user&password=pass&remember=0&client=preferred");

$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $result;

 

In the current directory I don't see any cookies which leads me to believe that the cookies are truly not being created. cURL isn't generating any error messages... is there some other way I'm not aware of for capturing errors?

 

Other potentially useful information. I'm running the above code on localhost (not the same server as the webmail resource). Though I don't think this matters because when I created a generic HTML form I could in fact login from localhost.

[dbo]

*bump*

 

Has anyone ever tried bypassing login forms which require cookies to be enabled?

[dbo]

One more time... any ideas?

[JonnoTheDev]

Try ammending the cookie path to your server tmp directory. Had no problems setting cookies with curl using this:

 

$cookiePath = "/tmp/cookies.txt";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookiePath);   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookiePath);