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Asked: 2026-06-06T09:18:23+00:00

I am Trying to login to 2shared with curl-php but for some reason it

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I am Trying to login to 2shared with curl-php but for some reason it just returns me login page and does not set proper cookies in cookie file. Below is my code. Thanks for any help.

$user = "";
$pass = "";
$cookie = "cookie.txt";

$jsonp = 'jsonp'.time();

if (file_exists($cookie)) {
    unlink($cookie);
}

$post = array(
    "login" => $user,
    "password" => $pass,
    "callback" => $jsonp
);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.2shared.com/login?callback=".$jsonp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);    
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.2shared.com/');       
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "UTF-8" );

$return = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $return;

EDIT:

When I login via browser and watch traffic via HTTP analyzer i noticed after hitting login button it returns this data and redirect to loginRedirect object and i notice it set some cookies which does not appears while I am doing php-curl request:

{
    "ok":true,
    "rejectReason":"",
    "loginRedirect":"http://www.2shared.com/account/homeDoorway.jsp;jsessionid=3F253C7C641C7A8402D4AC9872C1CEAE.dc282?rand=0.8112776952920494",
    "loggedIn":"myemail@email.com",
    "needActivation":false
}

But when trying to login with curl-php above code it return me this data:

jsonp1339804887({
    "ok":true,
    "rejectReason":"",
    "loginRedirect":"http://www.2shared.com/login.jsp?sessionUnavailable=1",
    "loggedIn":"",
    "needActivation":false
})
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  1. Editorial Team

    As always when doing web scraping, the key is to compare with a recorded session done manually with a browser (like with LiveHTTPHeaders or similar tools). Then make sure that your script is sending a request as similar as the recorded one as possible.

    If you had done that, you would’ve seen that…

    The login form on 2shared doesn’t seem to use a multipart formpost, so your passing of $array to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is wrong. It should simply be a string in the form of “login=$name&password=$secret”. This said, this may not be the only flaw in your approach.

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