Curl login to https

rupam_jaiswal · 06-22-2009, 05:32 AM

Hi,
Please excuse if similar issue has been posted earlier.
My scenario is
Login to a https site .
Once I login,I find a link to download a file.
Now all this I want to do with the help of curl.
I want the script for
1) login to https site
2)download the file?After applying the regex,I can get the link of the file easily but problem comes for downloading the file?Do I have to use JavaScript for that or use location header to redirect to file download link?
Thanks in advance

Wildhoney · 06-22-2009, 09:57 AM

There are a few cURL options when accessing a HTTPS resource, but the one I used in my script when I wrote one, was the following:

php Code:

$szUrl  = 'https://www.example.com/';
$pCurl  = curl_init();

curl_setopt($pCurl, CURLOPT_URL, $szUrl);
curl_setopt($pCurl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'username:pasword');
curl_setopt($pCurl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($pCurl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($pCurl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$szData = curl_exec($pCurl);
curl_close($pCurl);

As far as downloading the file is concerned, once you have the download link then all you have to do is make a call to it, either with cURL, or file_get_contents. Treat it just as though you're fetching web-page data.

Salathe · 06-22-2009, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rupam_jaiswal

I want the script for
1) login to https site
2)download the file?

"I want" does not mean "you'll get". Please show at least some effort that you've tried to do this yourself but hit a stumbling block. Do you have a script which can download a file from a non SSL URL? What have you tried, after getting the link, to download the file? Have you made any attempt at talking to an SSL connection?