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I made a similar question few hours ago, but I think I asked a wrong question there. This is more exact one.

im using cURL on PHP and i want to use a site, but everytime i change my site, the browser posts a value x to server, and if you dont, you can't go to the site.

you can see that the x value changes all the time from the picture, its a FireFox Live HTTP headers addon, it shows what pages i visit with browser

From FF live HTTP headers

i looked the source code and found out what is the x value, and it comes from javascript. can i get the value with cURL or some other way from the server?

date = new Date();
    ms = (date.getHours() * 24 * 60 * 1000) + (date.getMinutes() * 60 * 1000) + (date.getSeconds() * 1000) + date.getMilliseconds();

so the main problem is that the x value changes all the time and it has to be exactly "right" value , even milliseconds must be correct. i tried finding the value myself with javascript and then putting it to php, but still does not work

well lets say my page is www.google.com , i want to go to www.google.com/test.php .. when i press on the link the browser posts a value "x" to browser automatically as you can see from my picture right? , i think they made their site that way, but when i am using curl, then when i am using curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.google.com/test.php?x=VALUE') , so this posts the x for me.do you understand what i mean, i know its very fuzzy, but i try to explain — Jaanus
– Jaanus, Commented Feb 22, 2011 at 15:44

ajreal · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-22 15:39:18Z

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The reason is simple, you mixed between $_POST and $_GET

Check your PHP make sure is refer/using $_GET['x']

answered Feb 22, 2011 at 15:39

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Jaanus Over a year ago

well lets say my page is www.google.com , i want to go to www.google.com/test.php .. when i press on the link the browser posts a value "x" to browser automatically as you can see from my picture right? , i think they made their site that way, but when i am using curl, then when i am using curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.google.com/test.php?x=VALUE') , so this posts the x for me. why would i need to use GET, do you understand what i mean, i know its very fuzzy, but i try to explain

ajreal Over a year ago

You are doing a POST request instead of GET request, is up to the targeted script to response, if the script is using $_POST['x'], how do you expect it can work?

Jaanus Over a year ago

cause it has worked before on the site, but now they added the x variable and i just need to get the right value for it

Marc B · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-22 16:13:28Z

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All that javascript is doing is calculating the current time in milliseconds on the client and sending it to the server. You can calculate such a time in php trivially with $ms = time() * 1000;

answered Feb 22, 2011 at 16:13

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Jaanus Over a year ago

okay, but why I am getting different result then? my code and output PICTURE

Marc B Over a year ago

Ok, well, read your JS code sample wrong. It's only returning the milliseconds since midnight of the current day. In PHP that would be $ms = floor(((date('H') * 24*60*60) + (date('i') * 24*60) + date('s')) * 1000 + (date('u') / 1000));

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