I am trying to grab my amazon associates stats automatically via cUrl. However I

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I am trying to grab my amazon associates stats automatically via cUrl. However I

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I am trying to grab my amazon associates stats automatically via cUrl. However I am falling down at the first hurdle; logging in.

When I use the following code:

    $url = 'https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/flex/sign-in/select.html';
    $post_data = "action=sign-in&email=$username&password=$password";

    $fp = fopen('/my/path/to/cookie.txt', 'w');
    fclose($fp);

    $login = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($login, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 1);
    curl_setopt($login, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, '/my/path/to/cookie.txt');
    curl_setopt($login, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, '/my/path/to/cookie.txt');
    curl_setopt($login, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)');
    curl_setopt($login, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 40);
    curl_setopt($login, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);        
    curl_setopt($login, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($login, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);        
    curl_setopt($login, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
    curl_setopt($login, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
    curl_setopt($login, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($login, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
    echo curl_exec($login);
    curl_close($login);

I get the following output:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:08:39 GMT Server: Server
x-amz-id-1: 1NNZMSS8X73EE0G7HKW8 x-amz-id-2:
HRW1ZoN4KVzDCp/tS5E7l+7fn9XGH2k/T7qxzi+WLOw= Set-cookie:
session-id-time=1317279600l; path=/; domain=.amazon.com; expires=Thu
Sep 29 07:00:00 2011 GMT Set-cookie: session-id=181-7755537-2127814;
path=/; domain=.amazon.com; expires=Thu Sep 29 07:00:00 2011 GMT Vary:
Accept-Encoding,User-Agent Cneonction: close Transfer-Encoding:
chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Please Enable Cookies
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cookie.txt contains the following:

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File

# http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html

# This file was generated by libcurl! Edit at your own risk.

.amazon.com TRUE / FALSE 1317279600 session-id-time 1317279600l

.amazon.com TRUE / FALSE 1317279600 session-id 181-7755537-2127814

Live HTTP headers:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/flex/sign-in/select.html

POST /gp/flex/sign-in/select.html HTTP/1.1 Host:

affiliate-program.amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0;

rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8

Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive

Referer: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/ Cookie:

apn-user-id=P0000000000; session-id-time=1317366000l;

session-id=182-9139891-5240049;

__utma=125759317.157031897.1316727783.1316727783.1316795373.2;

__utmz=125759317.1316727783.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);

ubid-main=190-8295480-4625243; __utmv=125759317.koicarandsup-20;

x-main=qIM@jFtaFnr4KaiFFutR7WZ1QkQHqoq9;

at-main=4|eaxYjMp+5TWMiQOn6gROkHUvCfKF3Y9hkvacYbU0+fzL3Pr1ejcGt78Tb6W5zvUYj67hWyx3AuNd3UparIBCnnrL62d5IMyn7zeFKr7GfjnPvjjaGOPArk7n7tr7go+QgBU6OZ0hKse6MJIdApDrSe2cI0Mz9XDvbumEU5twDKgq338hejMR23IXuWrvq1o0hcfN6DS0oabY7mVIddSMig==;

__utmb=125759317; __utmc=125759317 Content-Type:

application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 1276

sessionId=182-9139891-
5240049&path=%2Fgp%2Fassociates%2Flogin%2Flogin.html&query=returl%3D%2Fgp%2Fassociates%2Fjoin%2Flanding%2Fmain.html%26retquery%3D&action=sign-in&mode=1&email=xxx&password=xxx&x=31&y=18&metadata1=xppc1AIU%2Fl8IERp8RJxYooTCV9Vo2Nico9wyEvW9ByghGgc%2FSNU8XqMQnjgshs3DZpFQgLXCAT1qAama%2Bj5WBGxvTRiC45v6Am7hMY99RwJfUIozi5v1ZkwV%2Bcjp9PecvpcPSxLVuwOF4QSf7Q%2BPxNwlxLm5nHXqSNPwmw5Ezg2ENIagMWcrwuDlp50%2B0XKi0e8yyawdc5TjH%2BhGXz12KABRLoH1WuTSwAWleHzGzBUN515WgRMElB583b9h%2FoDINumjmwwsHsjzXjLaEjYaM1w6nw%2F5fqmpABPcN31D7wgDQoOi1xxIyUtZceAa3rwwUxKvpZecStM2T6QtSJhx6YdpLNmHwGSdhkBrsCQVlcLruKNMnUVrb%2FZni3le380YsUeIsVZy113lqayCwla9vwvDTA4mstx2YTKtTU1NOzfblMlYBEL4rhLN1fpeF0EaiAoiatLb1kH%2BCvt6tp78KyPCd0XeEBGqMeDWm2b%2FBSg%2BUqVLBMSeHtJ4VZXxMaWhodZZYU0uxUNwL8hCVruO5KxSbssorByNybuPx%2FmkS87UZMDB62VALgb90MUXLvbVX%2BcmizzBkmwCs3Q6ampHa40NIYQKXTCCnGjVUwavCPv73OrMA8OjVJX3h371m3OHvzpBKRTFG5uiTfZoaaPI%2FYxikE2v99%2FaR3vlwkTZfOhM%2Fba9seIbMpxArTj6ekpmTLbU5LwKn2yVbiAZgsUuFSCNcQMlE%2FJ9nAIuYZ2guks0Zz%2BPhJ07TOXuTscuc%2Fm0wgqqluPq5NShRINoiGLjiKva6ngslLoQWeKovNwYyVCyNfuwsZ7BIo6%2Fo7yaEfIK6Yb%2BZPMommN%2FI7BFrlW7wrWmaG%2FgbtSx1bg9A5DgtKBDI21j3ibebBZVN%2FP2ZrEB6upCDHEKa1pMCkP6nbOhu%2BxcrNYS%2FyS6e0bv3WiWqugclX%2FnYmBWBdNunCFtI8LKU%2FMvhDT820M%3D

HTTP/1.1 302 MovedTemporarily Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:30:35 GMT

Server: Server x-amz-id-1: 1JGFY8JCATS8GCJ05WP3 x-amz-id-2:

vNYWJ+3yN1Qrya1cxENZdlFuZNF4Yc4uYhCmoR3UFBU= Set-Cookie:

at-main=4|3iPYr7E1Pn32BbMI4MHFaMtbn/0v54qEG1Jn9Pk+7Hi2Cws1f+jBSUt9oyBzrpy6BX1XCsZ/qoJlbswA0G2U3L9Yhec4CjSlsLZM+mEPRs/AiNAbvuUDzj9wL1HI2x+e7tBqDLhK+fas6R562qkQBX+9Y7bhE1St11hjislFijGuTcbtr+5mUz1FuweEFaH/xtHacsJ3Yth9iOiska0CbQ==;

path=/; domain=.amazon.com; expires=Tue Jan 01 08:00:01 2036 GMT;

secure Set-Cookie: ubid-main=190-8295480-4625243; path=/;

domain=.amazon.com; expires=Tue Jan 01 08:00:01 2036 GMT Location:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join/landing/main.html

Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent Content-Encoding: gzip nnCoection:

close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html;

charset=UTF-8

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join/landing/main.html

GET /gp/associates/join/landing/main.html HTTP/1.1 Host:

affiliate-program.amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0;

rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8

Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive

Referer: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/ Cookie:

apn-user-id=P0000000000; session-id-time=1317366000l;

session-id=182-9139891-5240049;

__utma=125759317.157031897.1316727783.1316727783.1316795373.2;

__utmz=125759317.1316727783.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);

ubid-main=190-8295480-4625243; __utmv=125759317.koicarandsup-20;

x-main=qIM@jFtaFnr4KaiFFutR7WZ1QkQHqoq9;

at-main=4|3iPYr7E1Pn32BbMI4MHFaMtbn/0v54qEG1Jn9Pk+7Hi2Cws1f+jBSUt9oyBzrpy6BX1XCsZ/qoJlbswA0G2U3L9Yhec4CjSlsLZM+mEPRs/AiNAbvuUDzj9wL1HI2x+e7tBqDLhK+fas6R562qkQBX+9Y7bhE1St11hjislFijGuTcbtr+5mUz1FuweEFaH/xtHacsJ3Yth9iOiska0CbQ==;

__utmb=125759317; __utmc=125759317

HTTP/1.1 302 MovedTemporarily Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:30:36 GMT

Server: Server x-amz-id-1: 0DVGSNJ16FJ7BZSXKZEA x-amz-id-2:

3zBVVCqaFC6uLEb69n0ImqYEWcveHC/fr3DWJZ9XwfU= Set-Cookie:

ubid-main=190-8295480-4625243; path=/; domain=.amazon.com; expires=Tue

Jan 01 08:00:01 2036 GMT Location:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/main.html

Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent Content-Encoding: gzip Cneonction:

close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html;

charset=UTF-8

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/main.html

GET /gp/associates/network/main.html HTTP/1.1 Host:

affiliate-program.amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0;

rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8

Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive

Referer: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/ Cookie:

apn-user-id=P0000000000; session-id-time=1317366000l;

session-id=182-9139891-5240049;

__utma=125759317.157031897.1316727783.1316727783.1316795373.2;

__utmz=125759317.1316727783.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);

ubid-main=190-8295480-4625243; __utmv=125759317.koicarandsup-20;

x-main=qIM@jFtaFnr4KaiFFutR7WZ1QkQHqoq9;

at-main=4|3iPYr7E1Pn32BbMI4MHFaMtbn/0v54qEG1Jn9Pk+7Hi2Cws1f+jBSUt9oyBzrpy6BX1XCsZ/qoJlbswA0G2U3L9Yhec4CjSlsLZM+mEPRs/AiNAbvuUDzj9wL1HI2x+e7tBqDLhK+fas6R562qkQBX+9Y7bhE1St11hjislFijGuTcbtr+5mUz1FuweEFaH/xtHacsJ3Yth9iOiska0CbQ==;

__utmb=125759317; __utmc=125759317

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:30:36 GMT Server: Server

x-amz-id-1: 02WEQDKB29RGKP5T4NWE x-amz-id-2:

xFfF8ncVlxX9KZtDLganiEY4CcDu+qXwkV5CBJGrKWY= Set-Cookie:

ubid-main=190-8295480-4625243; path=/; domain=.amazon.com; expires=Tue

Jan 01 08:00:01 2036 GMT Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent

Content-Encoding: gzip Cneonction: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

V192206992.jpg”>https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/thumb-slideshow-widget.V192206992.jpg

GET

/images/G/01/associates/network/thumb-slideshow-widget.V192206992.jpg

HTTP/1.1 Host: images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0

(Windows NT 6.0; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

image/png,image/;q=0.8,/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset:

ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive Referer:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/main.html

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Server Content-Length: 4119 Last-Modified:

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:03:17 GMT Content-Type: image/jpeg X-Cache-Lookup:

HIT from cdn-images.amazon.com:8080, MISS from

cdn-images.amazon.com:10080 Cache-Control: max-age=607570264 Date:

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:30:37 GMT Connection: keep-alive

SL75.jpg”>https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41WtSRWclnL.SL75.jpg

GET /images/I/41WtSRWclnL.SL75.jpg HTTP/1.1 Host:

images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT

6.0; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

image/png,image/;q=0.8,/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset:

ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive Referer:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/main.html

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Server Content-Length: 1317 Last-Modified:

Thu, 26 May 2011 11:17:40 GMT Content-Type: image/jpeg X-Cache-Lookup:

HIT from cdn-images.amazon.com:10080 Cache-Control: public,

max-age=628443948 Expires: Sat, 23 Aug 2031 08:16:25 GMT Date: Fri, 23

Sep 2011 16:30:37 GMT Connection: keep-alive

SL75.jpg”>https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/417XQ0XwQuL.SL75.jpg

GET /images/I/417XQ0XwQuL.SL75.jpg HTTP/1.1 Host:

images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT

6.0; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

image/png,image/;q=0.8,/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset:

ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive Referer:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/main.html

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Server Content-Length: 1321 Last-Modified:

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:26:28 GMT Content-Type: image/jpeg Cache-Control:

public, max-age=628496714 Expires: Sat, 23 Aug 2031 22:55:51 GMT Date:

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:30:37 GMT Connection: keep-alive

SL75.jpg”>https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/417tb3B43YL.SL75.jpg

GET /images/I/417tb3B43YL.SL75.jpg HTTP/1.1 Host:

images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT

6.0; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

image/png,image/;q=0.8,/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset:

ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive Referer:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/main.html

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Server Content-Length: 2462 Last-Modified:

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:52:12 GMT Content-Type: image/jpeg X-Cache-Lookup:

HIT from cdn-images.amazon.com:8080, MISS from

cdn-images.amazon.com:10080 Cache-Control: max-age=607635331 Date:

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:30:37 GMT Connection: keep-alive

SL75.jpg”>https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41sh5uiQ83L.SL75.jpg

GET /images/I/41sh5uiQ83L.SL75.jpg HTTP/1.1 Host:

images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT

6.0; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

image/png,image/;q=0.8,/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset:

ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive Referer:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/main.html

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Server Content-Length: 1341 Last-Modified:

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:05:25 GMT Content-Type: image/jpeg X-Cache-Lookup:

MISS from cdn-images.amazon.com:10080 Cache-Control: public,

max-age=630611997 Expires: Wed, 17 Sep 2031 10:30:34 GMT Date: Fri, 23

Sep 2011 16:30:37 GMT Connection: keep-alive

utm.gif?utmwv=1&utmn=61668861&utmcs=UTF-8&utmsr=1280×1024&utmsc=24-bit&utmul=en-gb&utmje=1&utmfl=10.3%20r183&utmdt=Amazon.com%20Associates%20Central%20-%20Home&utmhn=affiliate-program.amazon.com&utmr=0&utmp=/gp/associates/network/main.html”>https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/_utm.gif?utmwv=1&utmn=61668861&utmcs=UTF-8&utmsr=1280×1024&utmsc=24-bit&utmul=en-gb&utmje=1&utmfl=10.3%20r183&utmdt=Amazon.com%20Associates%20Central%20-%20Home&utmhn=affiliate-program.amazon.com&utmr=0&utmp=/gp/associates/network/main.html

GET

/__utm.gif?utmwv=1&utmn=61668861&utmcs=UTF-8&utmsr=1280×1024&utmsc=24-bit&utmul=en-
gb&utmje=1&utmfl=10.3%20r183&utmdt=Amazon.com%20Associates%20Central%20-%20Home&utmhn=affiliate-program.amazon.com&utmr=0&utmp=/gp/associates/network/main.html

HTTP/1.1 Host: affiliate-program.amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0

(Windows NT 6.0; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

image/png,image/;q=0.8,/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset:

ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive Referer:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/main.html

Cookie: apn-user-id=P0000000000; session-id-time=1317366000l;

session-id=182-9139891-5240049;

__utma=125759317.157031897.1316727783.1316727783.1316795373.2;

__utmz=125759317.1316727783.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);

ubid-main=190-8295480-4625243; __utmv=125759317.koicarandsup-20;

x-main=qIM@jFtaFnr4KaiFFutR7WZ1QkQHqoq9;

at-main=4|3iPYr7E1Pn32BbMI4MHFaMtbn/0v54qEG1Jn9Pk+7Hi2Cws1f+jBSUt9oyBzrpy6BX1XCsZ/qoJlbswA0G2U3L9Yhec4CjSlsLZM+mEPRs/AiNAbvuUDzj9wL1HI2x+e7tBqDLhK+fas6R562qkQBX+9Y7bhE1St11hjislFijGuTcbtr+5mUz1FuweEFaH/xtHacsJ3Yth9iOiska0CbQ==;

__utmb=125759317; __utmc=125759317

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:30:37 GMT Server: Server

Last-Modified: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:22:34 GMT Etag: “23-35b3d280”

Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 35 Cneonction: close

Content-Type: image/gif

SL75.jpg”>https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51993R08WLL.SL75.jpg

GET /images/I/51993R08WLL.SL75.jpg HTTP/1.1 Host:

images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT

6.0; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

image/png,image/;q=0.8,/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset:

ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive Referer:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/main.html

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Server Content-Length: 1325 Last-Modified:

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:47:41 GMT Content-Type: image/jpeg X-Cache-Lookup:

MISS from cdn-images.amazon.com:10080 Cache-Control: public,

max-age=628244375 Expires: Thu, 21 Aug 2031 00:50:12 GMT Date: Fri, 23

Sep 2011 16:30:37 GMT Connection: keep-alive

SL75.jpg”>https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41is%2B997KUL.SL75.jpg

GET /images/I/41is%2B997KUL.SL75.jpg HTTP/1.1 Host:

images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT

6.0; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

image/png,image/;q=0.8,/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset:

ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive Referer:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/main.html

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Server Content-Length: 1662 Last-Modified:

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:27:41 GMT Content-Type: image/jpeg X-Cache-Lookup:

MISS from cdn-images.amazon.com:10080 Cache-Control: public,

max-age=628487843 Expires: Sat, 23 Aug 2031 20:28:00 GMT Date: Fri, 23

Sep 2011 16:30:37 GMT Connection: keep-alive

SL75.jpg”>https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/518ISDAvx1L.SL75.jpg

GET /images/I/518ISDAvx1L.SL75.jpg HTTP/1.1 Host:

images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT

6.0; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

image/png,image/;q=0.8,/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset:

ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive Referer:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/main.html

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Server Content-Length: 1111 Last-Modified:

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:37:08 GMT Content-Type: image/jpeg X-Cache-Lookup:

MISS from cdn-images.amazon.com:10080 Cache-Control: public,

max-age=628003065 Expires: Mon, 18 Aug 2031 05:48:22 GMT Date: Fri, 23

Sep 2011 16:30:37 GMT Connection: keep-alive

SL75.jpg”>https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/4155OOdySdL.SL75.jpg

GET /images/I/4155OOdySdL.SL75.jpg HTTP/1.1 Host:

images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT

6.0; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

image/png,image/;q=0.8,/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset:

ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive Referer:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/main.html

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Server Content-Length: 1494 Last-Modified:

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:52:47 GMT Content-Type: image/jpeg X-Cache-Lookup:

MISS from cdn-images.amazon.com:10080 Cache-Control: public,

max-age=630336792 Expires: Sun, 14 Sep 2031 06:03:49 GMT Date: Fri, 23

Sep 2011 16:30:37 GMT Connection: keep-alive

utm.gif?utmwv=1&utmt=var&utmn=1408273993″>https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/_utm.gif?utmwv=1&utmt=var&utmn=1408273993

GET /__utm.gif?utmwv=1&utmt=var&utmn=1408273993 HTTP/1.1 Host:

affiliate-program.amazon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0;

rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Accept:

image/png,image/;q=0.8,/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset:

ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive Referer:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/main.html

Cookie: apn-user-id=P0000000000; session-id-time=1317366000l;

session-id=182-9139891-5240049;

__utma=125759317.157031897.1316727783.1316727783.1316795373.2;

__utmz=125759317.1316727783.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);

ubid-main=190-8295480-4625243; __utmv=125759317.koicarandsup-20;

x-main=qIM@jFtaFnr4KaiFFutR7WZ1QkQHqoq9;

at-main=4|3iPYr7E1Pn32BbMI4MHFaMtbn/0v54qEG1Jn9Pk+7Hi2Cws1f+jBSUt9oyBzrpy6BX1XCsZ/qoJlbswA0G2U3L9Yhec4CjSlsLZM+mEPRs/AiNAbvuUDzj9wL1HI2x+e7tBqDLhK+fas6R562qkQBX+9Y7bhE1St11hjislFijGuTcbtr+5mUz1FuweEFaH/xtHacsJ3Yth9iOiska0CbQ==;

__utmb=125759317; __utmc=125759317

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:30:37 GMT Server: Server

Last-Modified: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:22:34 GMT Etag: “23-35b3d280”

Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 35 Cneonction: close

Content-Type: image/gif

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-25T20:10:07+00:00

EDIT: This code is broken as of June 2016. See this answer for explanation and potential workaround. The same technology mentioned in the previous link was added to associates’ login.

I wrote this code up and it works well for me, in the last var_dump I see all my account info and things like that. If you don’t delete the cookies, you can make subsequent curl requests to protected pages with your login.

Hopefully this can help you learn about how to do it. A lot of times on big sites you need to visit the login page to get cookies set, and also they usually have csrf tokens on the forms you need to submit with them.

Of course if amazon changes their forms or url’s around a bit, this will have to be adapted some, but hopefully they don’t do that too often.

<?php

$email    = 'you@yoursite.com';
$password = 'password';

// initial login page which redirects to correct sign in page, sets some cookies
$URL = 'https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join/landing/main.html';

$ch  = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'amazoncookie.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'amazoncookie.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_STDERR,  fopen('php://stdout', 'w'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

$page = curl_exec($ch);

//var_dump($page);exit;

// try to find the actual login form
if (!preg_match('/<form name="sign_in".*?<\/form>/is', $page, $form)) {
    die('Failed to find log in form!');
}

$form = $form[0];

// find the action of the login form
if (!preg_match('/action=(?:\'|")?([^\s\'">]+)/i', $form, $action)) {
    die('Failed to find login form url');
}

$URL2 = $action[1]; // this is our new post url

// find all hidden fields which we need to send with our login, this includes security tokens
$count = preg_match_all('/<input type="hidden"\s*name="([^"]*)"\s*value="([^"]*)"/i', $form, $hiddenFields);

$postFields = array();

// turn the hidden fields into an array
for ($i = 0; $i < $count; ++$i) {
    $postFields[$hiddenFields[1][$i]] = $hiddenFields[2][$i];
}

// add our login values
$postFields['username'] = $email;
$postFields['password'] = $password;

$post = '';

// convert to string, this won't work as an array, form will not accept multipart/form-data, only application/x-www-form-urlencoded
foreach($postFields as $key => $value) {
    $post .= $key . '=' . urlencode($value) . '&';
}

$post = substr($post, 0, -1);

// set additional curl options using our previous options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $URL2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $URL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);

$page = curl_exec($ch); // make request

var_dump($page); // should be logged in

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