CURL cookie value

Question

I am trying to download music files from this site: looperman.com. I logged in as a user and I am trying to load loops using cURL. When you visit looperman.com, there are several cookies, but as an exception, I notice that the only thing required for the server to see that you are logged in is called "loopermanlooperman".

I grabbed the value of this cookie and set it as a variable. Then I submit it to the site as follows:

$sessid = 'somehashedvaluehere'; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Cookie: loopermanlooperman=$sessid;")); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/$pageID"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $response = curl_exec($ch); echo $response; 

When I repeat the answer, I see that the cookie has not been set, and the site still sees that I have not logged in. What am I doing wrong? Looperman is built using CodeIgniter. I wonder if they have any protection to prevent the installation of such files?

////// UPDATE

I tried COOKIE_JAR and CURLOPT_COOKIE. The cookies are still not set. I found this script from another Stack Overflow column, which seems to have delivered me most of the way, but still the cookies are set. There he is:

 $loginUrl = 'http://www.looperman.com/account/login/'; $loginFields = array('user_email' => ' [e-mail] ', 'user_password' => 'password'); getUrl($loginUrl, 'post', $loginFields); //now you're logged in and a session cookie was generated $remote_page_content = getUrl('http://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/200'); echo $remote_page_content; function getUrl($url, $method='', $vars='') { $ch = curl_init(); if ($method == 'post') { curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $vars); } curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'D:\wamp2\www\sandbox\cookie.txt'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'D:\wamp2\www\sandbox\cookie.txt'); $buffer = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); return $buffer; } 

When this returns, the contents of the file D: \ wamp2 \ www \ sandbox \ cookie.txt:

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

 .looperman.com TRUE / FALSE 1329245288 loopermancspr 147f3f08a0b50f7aa527789e360abbc8
 .looperman.com TRUE / FALSE 1328467688 loopermanlooperman rX1UOdqyPEKkZ7HT0x8dSLk7g9yf5sSmg% 2B7zj66hLM9LSmS1z4nqFO2zkEkqsUqKEwNMvEiExqSKoU2% ​​2BfVsxlf3C9VyucMWt41TJVDtElUUIQrZxv0BmwZYP6JCJrY7wcT1% 2FO7kKxRu8YI97YD% 2BWdxX3jnWu2Zme9jg% 2FMggp3% 2Be% 2BY% 2FFiAorh36FR1zTbSY66VJVj7268WgMy6KNdJ1DxieypwaMb2HYGpBMsQRxcI6RawnOIEdjbaPKYuf8hVy40

But looperman still does not see me logged in :(

Answer 1

You must use CURLOPT_COOKIE not CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER to set the cookie values ​​sent in the request.

 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, "loopermanlooperman=$sessid") 

CURLOPT_COOKIE

The contents of the cookie: header that will be used in the HTTP request. Note that multiple cookies are separated by a semicolon and then a space (for example, "fruit = apple; color = red")

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php/

This makes CURL a cookie . Try requesting a script that displays the contents of the headers as follows;

 <?php echo "Your cookies \n"; print_r( $_COOKIE); ?> 

Perhaps the site is checking the referral or host in your title. You can always try to view the requests made in the browser (in chrome go Spanner → Tools → Developer Tool → Network, now request a page and click on the request in the list. All headers should show)