CURL Authentication being lost?

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Published on 2009-10-18T03:22:35Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 6:06 UTC
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I am authenticating a login via CURL just fine. I have a variable I am using to display the returned HTML, and it is returning my user control panel as if I am logged in.

After authenticating, I want to communicate variables with a form on another page within the site; but for some reason the HTML from that page is returning a non-authenticated version of the header (as if the original authentication never took place.)

I have a cookies.txt file with 777 permissions, and have tried just getting the contents of the same page shown when I authenticate and it is as if I am losing any associated session/cookie data somewhere along the way.

Here is my curl.class file -

<?

class Curl {

	public $cookieJar = "";

	// Make sure the cookies.txt file is read/write permissions
	public function __construct($cookieJarFile = 'cookies.txt') {
		$this->cookieJar = $cookieJarFile;
	}

	function setup() {
		$header = array();
		$header[0]  = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,";
		$header[0] .= "text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
		$header[]   = "Cache-Control: max-age=0";
		$header[]   = "Connection: keep-alive";
		$header[]   = "Keep-Alive: 300";
		$header[]   = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
		$header[]   = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
		$header[]   = "Pragma: "; // browsers keep this blank.

		curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7');
		curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
		curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $this->cookieJar);
		curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $this->cookieJar);
		curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
		curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, true);
		curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
		curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	}

	function get($url) {
		$this->curl = curl_init($url);
		$this->setup();

		return $this->request();
	}

	function getAll($reg, $str) {
		preg_match_all($reg, $str, $matches);
		return $matches[1];
	}

	function postForm($url, $fields, $referer = '') {
		$this->curl = curl_init($url);
		$this->setup();
		curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
		curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
		curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
		curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);
		return $this->request();
	}

	function getInfo($info) {
		$info = ($info == 'lasturl') ? curl_getinfo($this->curl, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL) : curl_getinfo($this->curl, $info);
		return $info;
	}

	function request() {
		return curl_exec($this->curl);
	}
}
?>

And here is my curl.php file -

<?
include('curl.class.php'); // This path would change to where you store the file
$curl = new Curl();

$url = "http://www.site.com/public/member/signin";
$fields = "MAX_FILE_SIZE=50000000&dado_form_3=1&member[email]=email&member[password]=pass&x=16&y=5&member[persistent]=true";

// Calling URL
$referer = "http://www.site.com/public/member/signin";

$html = $curl->postForm($url, $fields, $referer);

echo($html);
?>
<hr style="clear:both;"/>
<?

$html = $curl->postForm('http://www.site.com/index.php','nid=443&sid=733005&tab=post&eval=yes&ad=&MAX_FILE_SIZE=10000000&ip=63.225.235.30','http://www.site.com/public/member/signin');

echo $html; // This will show you the HTML of the current page you and logged into
?>

Any ideas?

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