Question

I’m not sure if I’m asking this properly.

I have two PHP pages located on the same server. The first PHP page sets a cookie with an expiration and the second one checks to see if that cookie was set. if it is set, it returns “on”. If it isn’t set, it returns “off”.

If I just run the pages like

“www.example.com/set_cookie.php”

AND

“www.example.com/is_cookie_set.php”

I get an “on” from is_cookie_set.php.

Heres the problem, on the set_cookie.php file I have a function called is_set. This function executes the following cURL and returns the contents (“on” or “off”). Unfortunately, the contents are always returned as “off”. however, if I check the file manually (“www.example.com/is_cookie_set.php”) I can see that the cookie was set.

Heres the function :

<?php
function is_set()
{
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.com/is_cookie_set.php');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$contents = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

echo $contents;
}
?>

Please note, I’m not using cURL to GET or SET cookies, only to check a page that checks if the cookie was set.

I’ve looked into CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, and CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, but I believe those are for setting cookies via cURL and I don’t want to do this.

Answer 1

I believe you are making a confusion. When you are using curl, PHP will go to the trouble of acting like a client (like a browser maybe), and make that request for you. That is, the cookies that curl checks for have nothing to do with the cookies in your current browser. I think.