Question

I need to access a page html using curl. The problem is that this page always redirect you back to index unless you send a post to this page.

Try: www.clubmodel.com.br/ensaios (warning: erotic content)

You will be redirected to http://www.clubmodel.com.br, once you have clicked on “entrar” you will be able to access the page.

There’s anyway of simulating it with curl and get the contents back ?

Yes, I will need to scrap the page contents.

Answer 1

This site requires the cookie to be set. You should specify CURLOPT_COOKIE option:

$url = "http://www.clubmodel.com.br/ensaios";
$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, "concordo=entrou");
$content = curl_exec( $ch );
print($content);

You can use Firebug to figure that out yourself next time.