Question

I created a JSON API using PHP and when I access it directly (by the address bar) it is able to read and write cookies in the local browser.

When I use cURL or file_get_contents I can’t read and write cookies to the local machine so I tried using:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $_SERVER['HTTP_COOKIE']);

This works fine for reading the cookies but I’m not able to set cookies back to the browser.

The cookies I use are very important (authentication) so I need to get them using the API.

Answer 1

Use cookie jar and share it between your cURL “calls”. Set both CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE and CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR to point to the same file and you do not need to use CURLOPT_COOKIE