Php curl problem

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<?php
set_time_limit(0);
$php_userid = "my yahoo id";
$php_password = "my yahoo password";
$agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)";
$reffer = "http://mail.yahoo.com/";
$LOGINURL = "https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?";
$POSTFIELDS = ".tries=1&.src=ym&.intl=us&.u=3jtlosl6ju4sc.v=0&.challenge=NZYhS1spj7zunoVhpd6KRNqaF5Kz&hasMsgr=0&.chkP=Y&.done=http://mail.yahoo.com&.pd=ym_ver=0&c=&ivt=&sg=&pad=3&aad=3&login".$php_userid."&passwd".$php_password."";
$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$LOGINURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$POSTFIELDS); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $reffer);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch); 
echo $result;
?>

Is there any error? I'm doing something wrong, but i can not find it. please let me know if you can see where is my error? i need to set up this curl class.

Can you elaborate a bit more about ` its not working`. What is not working ? Are you getting any error message ? What is the expected behaviour ? — HoLyVieR
– HoLyVieR, Commented Jan 25, 2011 at 18:46
@HoLyVieR, thanks for answer. oh yes, i forgot to say it. first one can log me to my account succesfully, and second one (php curl) can not log me in. it takes me to login page. — Shameless Joe
– Shameless Joe, Commented Jan 25, 2011 at 18:49

Community · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-17 19:24:28Z

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The POST data is malformed, it should be :

[...]  "login=" . urlencode($php_userid). "&passwd=" . urlencode($php_password) . ""

Instead of

[...]  "login".$php_userid."&passwd".$php_password.""

You should use urlencode to ensure that the data passed in POST data is properly sent and you where missing an = for the login and passwd value.

edited Nov 17, 2023 at 19:24

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answered Jan 25, 2011 at 18:55

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Shameless Joe Over a year ago

hmm i tested it. you are right.however yahoo has given this error: "The browser you're using refuses to sign in. (cookies rejected)" ... i think your code is true. thanks..

Michael Irigoyen · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-25 18:48:27Z

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You should use curl_error to determine what is failing during the cURL process. You can see a list of cURL error codes here: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html

$result = curl_exec($ch);
$error = curl_error($ch);
print $error;
curl_close ($ch);

answered Jan 25, 2011 at 18:48

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Shameless Joe Over a year ago

thanks for your help. i added your codes. its not giving any errors.

Michael Irigoyen Over a year ago

I noticed in this line

$POSTFIELDS = ".tries=1&.src=ym&.intl=us&.u=3jtlosl6ju4sc.v=0&.challenge=NZYhS1spj7zunoVhpd6KRNqaF5Kz&hasMsgr=0&.chkP=Y&.done=http://mail.yahoo.com&.pd=ym_ver=0&c=&ivt=&sg=&pad=3&aad=3&login".$php_userid."&passwd".$php_password."";

you don't have an equal sign after login and passwd. Perhaps that is causing an issue?

user253984 · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-25 18:54:56Z

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I assume the .challenge field gets dynamically generated. Your curl request uses an invalid challenge and so the server blocks it.

answered Jan 25, 2011 at 18:54

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Toto · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-27 10:36:12Z

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$cookie = cookie.txt";
Insert after: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$POSTFIELDS); this: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie);

edited Oct 27, 2012 at 10:36

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Yaroslav Over a year ago

Can you add some comments to your code? What does it adds to the currently accepted one? Commenting helps others to understand your answer

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