Reputation: 11
Php curl script working on localhost (xampp) but not when I upload it to hosting
I know that similar questions have been asked but I think they are a little bit different or they have not solved my problem. First of all, I started to learn about PHP/curl and websites in general only a few weeks ago, so I am sure I am doing a lot of mistakes. For this reason, I would ask understanding from you.
Okay, thanks to stackoverflow I have been able to "write" an script whose function is:
- Login to www.example.com/login.php
- "Fill a form" on www.example.com/submit.php?h=test
The code is the following:
code.php
<?php
error_reporting (E_ALL | E_STRICT);
set_time_limit(0);
function curl_login($url,$data,$proxy,$proxystatus){
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
ob_start(); // prevent any output
$temp=curl_exec ($ch); // execute the curl command
ob_end_clean(); // stop preventing output
$fp = fopen("cookie.txt", "w");
fclose($fp);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 40);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
ob_start(); // prevent any output
return curl_exec ($ch); // execute the curl command
ob_end_clean(); // stop preventing output
curl_close ($ch);
unset($ch);
}
$test1 = curl_login('http://www.example.com/login.php','username=itsme&password=abcdedg&login=Login','','off');
function curl_submit($url,$data,$proxy,$proxystatus){
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
ob_start(); // prevent any output
$temp=curl_exec ($ch); // execute the curl command
ob_end_clean(); // stop preventing output
$fp = fopen("cookie.txt", "w");
fclose($fp);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 130);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
ob_start(); // prevent any output
return curl_exec ($ch); // execute the curl command
ob_end_clean(); // stop preventing output
curl_close ($ch);
unset($ch);
}
$test2 = curl_submit('http://www.example.com/submit.php?h=test','url=www.heythere.com&username=xyz&submit=submit','','off');
echo $test2;
?>
The strange thing (for me) is that when I run it on Xampp everything works perfect, but when I run it from my hosting (in this example would be http://www.example.com/code.php) it is not able to login and the header is:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 10:50:26 GMT Server: Apache Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Set-Cookie: HEY=1342453645645645645; path=/ Last-Modified: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 10:50:26 GMT Location: http://www.example.com/login.php Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/html HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 10:50:26 GMT Server: Apache Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Last-Modified: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 10:50:26 GMT Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html
I hope everything is clear and that you don't see so much mistakes!
Upvotes: 0
Views: 1775
Answers (1)
Reputation: 11
Yesterday I found a solution (thanks to this post: How can I make cURL set a cookie relative to the script?), so I am going to post my final code in order to help anyone with the same problem. Briefly: it was a problem with cookies and their defined path. I have also deleted two lines that, I don't know why, made code not working.
Okay, code.php:
<?php
error_reporting (E_ALL | E_STRICT);
set_time_limit(0);
function curl_login($url,$data,$proxy,$proxystatus){
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$cookiefile = dirname(__FILE__)."/cookies.txt" ;
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookiefile);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookiefile);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
ob_start(); // prevent any output
$temp=curl_exec ($ch); // execute the curl command
ob_end_clean(); // stop preventing output
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookiefile);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookiefile);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 40);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
ob_start(); // prevent any output
return curl_exec ($ch); // execute the curl command
ob_end_clean(); // stop preventing output
curl_close ($ch);
unset($ch);
}
$test1 = curl_login('http://www.example.com/login.php','username=itsme&password=abcdedg&login=Login','','off');
function curl_submit($url,$data,$proxy,$proxystatus){
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$cookiefile = dirname(__FILE__)."/cookies.txt" ;
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookiefile);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
ob_start(); // prevent any output
$temp=curl_exec ($ch); // execute the curl command
ob_end_clean(); // stop preventing output
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookiefile);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookiefile);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 130);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
ob_start(); // prevent any output
return curl_exec ($ch); // execute the curl command
ob_end_clean(); // stop preventing output
curl_close ($ch);
unset($ch);
}
$test2 = curl_submit('http://www.example.com/submit.php?h=test','url=www.heythere.com&username=xyz&submit=submit','','off');
echo $test2;
?>
Thank you all for trying to help!
Upvotes: 1
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