Question

I am tring to read a cookie value which I got after login by sending a POST request.

Then I want to sent that cookie value with another POST request using Curl to another action. But after sending this when I am trying to see all posted header it does display that I have send any cookie value. This value is not available to my posted URL so not able to access the information due to authentication. Please tell me where I have done something wrong:

$URL1        = "http://www.getinf.com/iconf/user?action=buGroup";
$postfields1 = "device=mapp&type=ajax&name1=ra&cc1=91&min1=90name2=imm&cc2=91&min2=97";

// sends a post request
$ch1 = curl_init();   
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_URL,$URL1); 
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_COOKIE,'JSESSIONID=199FFF6355DEA87F3D72E692E7514AD2');
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_HEADER,true);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields1);

$result = curl_exec($ch1);

print_r(headers_list());// displays all post request data
$ret = ReturnVal($result);
print_r(get_headers($URL1, 1)); // 
curl_close ($ch1);

So what is wrong in this code that is preventing JSESSIONID value accessible as a cookie value?

Answer 1

Check the comments (or search “cookie”) on this page in the php docs:

Whats not mentioned in the
documentation is that you have to set
CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR to a file for the
CURL handle to actually use cookies,
if it is not set then cookies will not
be parsed.