Using Curl To Login

[shahrukh1]

I need to login into this webpage in order to get the contents of a certain page that only members have access too.

 

I decided to use cURL to do this instead of creating a stream for file_get_contents()

 

I am pretty new to cURL, but here is my attempt at this situation.

 

<?php

$url = 'http://secure.chess.com/login';

$postfields = "c1=USERNAME&loginpassword=PASSWORD";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
$response = curl_exec($ch);

echo $response;
?>

 

as you may see, the webpage is chess.com/login (login url)

I am pretty sure the form credentials are

Username (which is name="c1")

Password (which is name="loginpassword")

 

the problem is that it replies back with

 

"301 Moved Permanently error"

Edited December 4, 2012 by shahrukh1

[Muddy_Funster]

try adding

curl_setopt(CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

to your options list.

 

Edt: forgot to close tags :/

Edited December 4, 2012 by Muddy_Funster

[Muddy_Funster]

just popped onto the site, and I see a couple of things : it's using https and there is another part of the form - rememberme - that your not sending.

[shahrukh1]

okay so I updated the script

 

<?php

$url = 'https://secure.chess.com/login';
$postfields = "c1=USERNAME&loginpassword=PASSWORD&rememberme=checked";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $password);   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);

echo $response;

?>

 

it brings me to the login page of the chess.com website, not logged into the account, I'm assuming it is not working?

 

sample credentials:

 

opticalpalace : phpfreaks

[shahrukh1]

still unable to get it working.