Getting Data From Protected Website (Curl Issues)

[Raypulsif]

Hey guys,

 

i'm new here.

 

English is not my native language but i'll try my best.

 

First, what i would like to do.

The purpose of the code is too get data (html file) which is located in a website, but you need to have an account to access the page.

 

After differents tries and misses and several hours into discovering curl lib and testing, everything i tried failed.

 

I tried to solve this step by step and i'm afraid something goes wrong at step 1 but i can't tell what, and how to fix it.

 

This is my code :

 

<?php 
/* 
 Here is a script that is usefull to : 
 - login to a POST form, 
 - store a session cookie, 
 - download a file once logged in. 
*/ 


// INIT CURL 
$ch = curl_init(); 


// SET URL FOR THE POST FORM LOGIN 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://mywebsite.com/user/login'); 


// ENABLE HTTP POST 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 


// SET POST PARAMETERS : FORM VALUES FOR EACH FIELD 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'name=myname&pass=mypass&form_id=user_login'); 


// IMITATE CLASSIC BROWSER'S BEHAVIOUR : HANDLE COOKIES 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "/tmp/cookieFileName.txt"); 
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://mywebsite.com');


//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);


# Setting CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER variable to 1 will force cURL 
# not to print out the results of its query. 
# Instead, it will return the results as a string return value 
# from curl_exec() instead of the usual true/false. 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 


// EXECUTE 1st REQUEST (FORM LOGIN) 
$store = curl_exec ($ch);


$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
/* i might have already problems here since $info contains :

Array
(
   [url] => https://mywebsite.com/user/login
   [content_type] => 
   [http_code] => 0
   [header_size] => 0
   [request_size] => 0
   [filetime] => -1
   [ssl_verify_result] => 0
   [redirect_count] => 0
   [total_time] => 0
   [namelookup_time] => 0
   [connect_time] => 0.171
   [pretransfer_time] => 0
   [size_upload] => 0
   [size_download] => 0
   [speed_download] => 0
   [speed_upload] => 0
   [download_content_length] => -1
   [upload_content_length] => -1
   [starttransfer_time] => 0
   [redirect_time] => 0
)
*/
// SET FILE TO DOWNLOAD 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://mywebsite.com/users/en/myfile/1/'); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "/tmp/cookieFileName.txt");

// EXECUTE 2nd REQUEST (FILE DOWNLOAD) 
$content = curl_exec ($ch); 

// CLOSE CURL 
curl_close ($ch); 


?>

 

$content contains a "you must be logged" page instead of "this is your data" page.

 

2nd possible problem : the cookie.txt contains :

 

 

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File

# http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html

# This file was generated by libcurl! Edit at your own risk.

 

mywebsite.com FALSE / FALSE 0 LOL_TRIB p4epeqgp9tfijl0evi91rsl225

 

and not all the cookies that are stored in my navigator if i log in manually.

 

Could someone explain to me where are my errors, or give me a hint please ?

 

Thanks.