Question

what I’m trying to figure out if php’s curl function is eligible to get in a password protected page, of course with given credentials, and curl a specified page?

Answer 1

Sure, see this sample code :

<?php

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/path/to/form");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

$data = array(
    'login' => 'foobar',
    'passwd' => 'xxxxxxxxx'
);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);

(From http://www.electrictoolbox.com/php-curl-form-post/)

The fields names should be edited to suit your needs, see the output of

mech-dump --forms http://YOUR_domain.tld

(install mech-dump if needed)