Question

I am trying to log into a website, then go to a link and then submit a form to get the desired data. I want to do it using cURL. I have achieved success in loggin into the website. The login redirects me to the profile page.

Now I need to follow a link and then submit a form! but when i do that using CURL the session is invalidated. I get the JSESSIONID in a cookie.txt file i used to store the cookie created. All the examples i have seen are just about loggin into a website or just a registration form submission.that is just one single POST request!

How do I go to another link and then submit another form using curl after I have successfully logged in and stored the cookie?

I am using WAMP as my local server.

<?php
$username="myusername"; 
$password="mypassword"; 
$url="http://onlinelic.in/LICEPS/Login/webLogin.do";
$referer = "http://onlinelic.in/epslogin.htm"; 
$postdata = "portlet_5_6{actionForm.userName}=".$username."&portlet_5_6{actionForm.password}=".$password;
$cookie = "cookie.txt" ;
$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION,false); 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60); 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata); 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
logIntoLocator(); 
curl_close($ch);

function logIntoLocator()
{
    $pincode = "731234";
    $locatorType = "P";
    $url = "http://onlinelic.in/LICEPS/appmanager/Customer/CustomerHome?_nfpb=true&_windowLabel=Cust_Agent_Locator_portlet_25_2&Cust_Agent_Locator_portlet_25_2_actionOverride=%2Fportlets%2Fvisitor%2FAgentLocator%2Flocating";
    $referer = "https://customer.onlinelic.in/LICEPS/appmanager/Customer/CustomerHome?_nfpb=true&_windowLabel=CustomerLocatorsPortlet_1&_cuid=RC_t_832059&_pagechange=AgentLocator";
    $postData = "Cust_Agent_Locator_portlet_25_2wlw-radio_button_group_key:{actionForm.agentRadioOption}=".$locatorType."&Cust_Agent_Locator_portlet_25_2{actionForm.agentOption}=".$pincode;
    $cookie = "cookie.txt" ;
    $agentCurl = curl_init();
    curl_setopt ($agentCurl, CURLOPT_URL, $referer); 
    curl_setopt ($agentCurl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
    curl_setopt ($agentCurl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0");
    curl_setopt($agentCurl,CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION,true);
    curl_setopt ($agentCurl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60); 
    curl_setopt ($agentCurl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
    curl_setopt ($agentCurl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  
    curl_setopt ($agentCurl, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
    curl_setopt ($agentCurl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie);
    curl_setopt ($agentCurl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie);
    curl_setopt ($agentCurl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);
    curl_setopt ($agentCurl, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
    $result = curl_exec ($agentCurl);    
    echo $result;   
}

If you like to give it a try the username is “manashch1” and the password is “nokia1105*”. login there and go the AgentLocator and there u can enter pincode as 731234 and get the data needed.

Answer 1

You need to attach the cookie(s) to CURL. There are two options:

1. You can do this all manually by reading the cookie, and attaching manually using

   $ch = curl_init();
   $sCookie = 'JSESSIONID=' . $sessionIDSavedEarlier . '; path=/'; 
   curl_setopt ( $ch , CURLOPT_COOKIE, sCookie );
   ... rest of POST
   

2. You can use a “cookie jar” (probably easiest)

   $ch = curl_init();
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt");
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
   ... rest of POST
   

(Making sure you can read/write to a file called “cookie.txt” – if you have multiple users using hte script, then make that file unique for each user through a PHP session!)