PHP Curl & Session ID's

[wpt394]

Hello all.  I am having trouble passing data using curl.  The goal is to have a page use curl to go out to several other pages, each of which write data to the same location (i.e. a temporary file, or session, etc).  This file will then be read by a different "results" page. 

 

I tried passing the same php session id through the Url in the curl function, but the script hangs (I don't think you can have simultaneous connections to the same php session). 

 

(Please note:  My solution is not to retrieve the output using curl and then perform a preg_match....I want to actually write the data in the curl urls to some other temporary location that can then be accessed)

 

Here is the failing script I've been working with...

 

test.php

<?php
session_start();

$s = session_id();
$url = 'http://www.vegashotelhunt.com/test2.php?PHPSESSID='.$s;

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);	
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

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


$finalvariable = $_SESSION['sidtest'];
echo $finalvariable;
?>

 

 

test2.php

<?php
session_start();
$test = 'If you can read this on test.php, success!!';
$_SESSION['sidtest']=$test;
?>

 

If the script worked as I had hoped, running test.php would output $finalvariable as 'If you can read this on test.php, success'.  Unfortunately, no luck.