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Asked: 2026-05-25T17:41:58+00:00

I was looking for help with a problem I have using cURL to get

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I was looking for help with a problem I have using cURL to get info from a site.

I’m a newbie using cURL, so I need some guidance with this. I need to login to 3dstats.com automatically and then recover a list of data. With the list there’s no problem, I’m already working on a solution; it’s the login that I can’t get to work. The login form, after much cleaning up, is something like this:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <meta name="generator" content=
    "HTML Tidy for Windows (vers 14 February 2006), see www.w3.org" />
    <title></title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form action="/cgi-bin/edit2.cgi" method="post">
      <input type="hidden" name="type" value="2" />
      <input type="text" class="flinput" size="40" name="usr" value="00000000" />
      <input type="password" size="40" name="UsrPass" class="flinput" />
      <input type="submit" value="Submit " class="binput" />
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

So, I need to send 3 variables, type, usr, and UsrPass. If I save this page and click Submit, the form works fine (after changing the fields to hidden and populating them with the correct login values, of course).
However, if I do this: 

<?php  
  $ch     = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://3dstats.com/cgi-bin/edit2.cgi");
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

  $data   = array("type"    => "44",
                  "usr"     => "correct8-digitNumber",
                  "UsrPass" => "correctPassword");

   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,  '/3dstats/cookies.txt');
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, '/3dstats/cookies.txt');

   $output = curl_exec($ch);
   $info   = curl_getinfo($ch);

   echo "<pre>";
   print_r($info);
   echo "</pre>";

   echo $output;

   curl_close($ch);
?>

the form returns: “Error : Wrong Account”, with the account number already populated to ” 0000″ (note the space). The account is an 8-digit number.

Any ideas as to what I’m doing wrong? The page says it is using cookies. What is the correct form of capturing/using them later? What I’m trying doesn’t seem to be working.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice.

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  1. Editorial Team

    To answer my own question and for future reference, the way it worked was like this:

    $cookie_file_path = getcwd() . '/cookie.txt';
//Emulating Chrome Browser:
$agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/A.B (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/X.Y.Z.W Safari/A.B.";

/*  Login part of the code -- start */

//First, get and write session cookie:
$ch = curl_init(); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'http://3dstats.com/cgi-bin/edit2.cgi');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,  $cookie_file_path);

$loginpage_html = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

//Now, use the session cookie to actually log in:
$POSTFIELDS = "type=44&usr=". $your_username ."&UsrPass=". $your_password;  

$ch = curl_init(); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'http://3dstats.com/cgi-bin/edit2.cgi');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$POSTFIELDS); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://3dstats.com/cgi-bin/edit2.cgi');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,  $cookie_file_path);

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

    The login now works.

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