01-13-2009
maintaining form post session using curl
Hello,
I have searched for a good part of the day, but cannot seem to find an answer to this. I hope this is an appropriate forum for my question.
I am wanting to download a blog web page using a script. It requires username and password login. I have tried the following (an example) to no avail:
curl -d username=username -d password=password
http://siteurl/index.php
I then tried this hoping that I could get the session started and then go to the page:
curl -d username=username -d password=password --url
http://siteurl/index.php --url
http://siteurl/desired_page.php
and the same as above using -u username:password instead of -d
I get the pages but I am not logged in. I have tried these methods on other pages using post forms for passwords and it works fine. I have checked to the source of the login pages and I am using the correct name values for password and username. I am trying to download pages that are privy only to members, and I cannot download them
I don't believe the site is using cookies to remember my login info for a session because when I log in and out using firefox, my cookie list does not change.
Does anyone have any ideas what is happing with this?
Last edited by Allasso; 01-14-2009 at 08:19 AM..
Reason: removed auto parsing of URLs and smilies (at least I tried anyway...)
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curlopt_ignore_content_length
CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH(3) curl_easy_setopt options CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH(3)
NAME
CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH - ignore content length
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH,
long ignore);
DESCRIPTION
If ignore is set to 1L, ignore the Content-Length header in the HTTP response and ignore asking for or relying on it for FTP transfers.
This is useful for HTTP with Apache 1.x (and similar servers) which will report incorrect content length for files over 2 gigabytes. If
this option is used, curl will not be able to accurately report progress, and will simply stop the download when the server ends the con-
nection.
It is also useful with FTP when for example the file is growing while the transfer is in progress which otherwise will unconditionally
cause libcurl to report error.
Only use this option if strictly necessary.
DEFAULT
0
PROTOCOLS
HTTP
EXAMPLE
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");
/* we know the server is silly, ignore content-length */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH, 1L);
curl_easy_perform(curl);
}
AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.14.1. Support for FTP added in 7.46.0.
RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION(3), CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE_LARGE(3),
libcurl 7.54.0 February 03, 2016 CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH(3)