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  1. POPHP cURL: HTTP headers show 302 and cookies set, cookies are saved and sent, same headers appear?
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    copied!<p>This is kind of a carry on from a question asked yesterday: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8675611/cant-seem-to-get-a-web-pages-contents-via-curl-user-agent-and-http-headers-b/8675630#8675630">Can&#39;t seem to get a web page&#39;s contents via cURL - user agent and HTTP headers both set?</a></p> <p>I'm attempting to access a url's contents, the problem is the way this url handles request.</p> <p><strong>The url:</strong> <a href="http://www.deindeal.ch/deals/atlas-grand-hotel-2-naechte-30-2/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.deindeal.ch/deals/atlas-grand-hotel-2-naechte-30-2/</a></p> <p><strong>First request (without cookies):</strong></p> <p>After "learning" to use curl in the command line (props to @d3v3us), a simple request <code>curl -i http://www.deindeal.ch/deals/atlas-grand-hotel-2-naechte-30-2/</code> shows the following:</p> <pre><code>curl -i http://www.deindeal.ch/deals/atlas-grand-hote l-2-naechte-30-2/ HTTP/1.1 302 FOUND Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:15:00 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Vary: Accept-Language,Cookie,Accept-Encoding Content-Language: de Set-Cookie: csrftoken=edc8c77fc74f5e788c53488afba4e50a; Domain=www.deindeal.ch; Max-Age=31449600; Path=/ Set-Cookie: generic_cookie=1; Path=/ Set-Cookie: sessionid=740a8a2cb9fb51166dcf865e35b91888; expires=Fri, 27-Jan-2012 13:15:00 GMT; Max-Age=2419200; Path=/ Location: http://www.deindeal.ch/welcome/?deal_slug=atlas-grand-hotel-2-naechte- 30-2 Content-Length: 0 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 </code></pre> <p><strong>Second request (with cookies):</strong></p> <p>So, I save the cookie using <code>-c</code>, check that it saves as <code>cookie.txt</code>, and run the request again with the addition of <code>-b cookie.txt</code>, getting this:</p> <pre><code>curl -i -b cookie.txt http://www.deindeal.ch/deals/atlas-grand-hotel-2-naechte-3 0-2/ HTTP/1.1 302 FOUND Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:38:17 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Vary: Accept-Language,Cookie,Accept-Encoding Content-Language: de Set-Cookie: csrftoken=49f5c804d399f8581253630631692f5f; Domain=www.deindeal.ch; Max-Age=31449600; P ath=/ Location: http://www.deindeal.ch/welcome/?deal_slug=atlas-grand-hotel-2-naechte-30-2 Content-Length: 0 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 </code></pre> <p>To me this looks like exactly the same contents, minus one or two parameters in the cookie, but maybe I'm overlooking something?</p> <p>I'm attempting to get the curl request to function and return the same contents as when requesting that url via a browser, but I'm not sure what I should do next.</p> <p><strong>Note:</strong> I've tagged this PHP, as I am using PHP to make the requests, I've simply using command line to easily show the returned headers - so if there's any other PHP libraries or methods that would work (better, or in a place that cURL wouldn't), please feel free to suggest any.</p> <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated ;).</p>
 

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