Loading a cookie and posting data with curl

Question

If I load in a cookie, I am able to get to the page that requires cookies, like this:

$cookie = ".ASPXAUTH=Secret";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookie);

No problem here, I can run curl_exec, and see the page that requires cookies.

If I also want to send some post data, I can do like this:

$data = array(
     'index' => "Some data is here"
);

$cookie = ".ASPXAUTH=Secret";

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookie);

I have set up a dump script on my local server, to see if it is working. If i send only the cookie, I can see it in the http headers, and if I send only the post data, I can see the post data.

When I send both, I see only the cookie.

Why?

ummm what does the script look like that you are sending these curl requests to? — Naftali
– Naftali, Commented May 16, 2011 at 15:08
@Neal I'm currently only posting to a dump script on a local server. The script is found here pastebin.com/37mDNNHr — Ragnar123
– Ragnar123, Commented May 16, 2011 at 15:11
What's the contents of php://input? Maybe the HTTP contents aren't being parsed into the $_POST variable properly depending on how curl sends the Content-Type. — Paul DelRe
– Paul DelRe, Commented May 16, 2011 at 15:37

Ragnar123 · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-27 00:09:34Z

1

I finally found a solution.

If I manually set the cookie, using a custom http_header, I am able to get the results wanted.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Cookie:.ASPXAUTH=secretData"));

Even tried on different servers - same results.

answered May 27, 2011 at 0:09

Ragnar123

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