Posting to a form with curl not working..

[kutchbhi]

Trying to post to this page here:

 

How it works: The form has several hidden fields, one inputs value is generated randomly each time. So had to parse the page(using simple html dom) to get that. Then using firebug, found other input fields that were 'generated'(fetched?) with javascript. Used cookiejar and cookiefile to keep cookies between sessions.

But the end result is that it isn't posting. It just echoes the form page.

The code:

<?php
    include("includes/simple_html_dom.php") ;
    define("WEBBOT_NAME", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1");
    define("CURL_TIMEOUT", 25);

function get_initial_page($target)
    {
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $target) ;       // Target site
              
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "C:/cookie-lawyer.txt"); //CHANGE THIS 
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "www.google.com");  
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, CURL_TIMEOUT);    // Timeout
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, WEBBOT_NAME); 
       // curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
       //  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "username=kutchbhi&password=rem0te&autologin=1&hideonline=1&redirect=&login=Log in" );
        
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);     // Follow redirects
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 4);             // Limit redirections to four
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);     // Return in string  
        $curled_page = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        return $curled_page ;
    }
    
    function post_with_curl($target,$ref, $name ,$viewStateValue )
    {
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $target) ;       // Target site
              
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "C:/cookie-lawyer.txt"); //CHANGE THIS 
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $ref);  
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, CURL_TIMEOUT);    // Timeout
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, WEBBOT_NAME); 
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
        switch ($target)
        {
            case "http://198.173.15.31/V2/COUNTY/Default.aspx":
            // echo "targe found" ;
            $postfields = array("__EVENTTARGET" => '' , "__EVENTARGUMENT" => '' , "__VIEWSTATE" => $viewStateValue , "__VIEWSTATEENCRYPTED" => '' , 'ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$NameSearch1$CompanyNameTextBox1' => $name , 'ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$SearchButton' => 'Search Now'  ) ;
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields );
            break ;
        }
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);     // Follow redirects
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 4);             // Limit redirections to four
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);     // Return in string  
        $curled_page = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        return $curled_page ;
    }

               $viewStateValue = "" ;
               // $url = "default.htm" ; $formPage = file_get_html($url) ; 
                $url = "http://198.173.15.31/V2/COUNTY/" ;  
                $curled_page = get_initial_page($url) ;              
                $formPage = str_get_html($curled_page) ; 
              
                $viewState = $formPage->find('input[id=__VIEWSTATE]') ;
                foreach($viewState as $theState)
                {
                 //   echo "found viewstate"  ."<br>";;
                    $viewStateValue = $theState->value   ;
                  //  echo $viewStateValue  ."<br>";;
                }
               // echo $viewStateValue ;
               $resultPage = post_with_curl("http://198.173.15.31/V2/COUNTY/Default.aspx","http://198.173.15.31/V2/COUNTY/", "jenna" ,$viewStateValue ) ;
               echo $resultPage ;
?>

 

the contents of the cookie file:

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
# http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
# This file was generated by libcurl! Edit at your own risk.

#HttpOnly_198.173.15.31	FALSE	/	FALSE	0	ASP.NET_SessionId	fxr0bu45fvme0wbv4t5u0k55

can someone kind have a look ? is it because of the javascript generated input fields? My guess is that the cookies are not being maintained within sessions.

 

Thanks

 

[ocpaul20]

Yeah, and I get loads of people just like you posting to my contact form. :-)

[xyph]

It would appear the site you want to cURL doesn't want to be cURL'd.

 

BTW - username=kutchbhi&password=rem0te&autologin=1&hideonline=1&redirect=&login=Log in