cURL Question

[D Benfer]

Hi all,

Im a bit thrown by curl. I want to submit some order data on an ecommerce
site via a form to a php page, where the data is saved to a database.
Then I want to use curl to submit the form data I just saved (and
redirect the user) to my secure credit card gateway.

Problem is, they have their own secure payment screen where the credit
card information is entered. I can't just retrieve the variable with a
transaction success/failure setting. Plus, the curl code I use sends me
there as if I was still on my own server. No secure connection, and the
graphics on their server tries to load from mine. Looks very poor.

Anyway, here's the code:

$ch = curl_init("http s://server.com/payment.url");
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_POSTFIE LDS, $postdata);
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_FOLLOWL OCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_REFERER , "http://site.com/payment.html");
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_RETURNT RANSFER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch) ;


I guess my question is - is there an option in curl to acutally get the
browser to follow the posted data as if I clicked the button on a page?
FOLLOWLOCATION does not get me there for some reason.

All help is greatly appreciated!

DB

[D Benfer]

Re: cURL Question

Louis-Philippe Huberdeau <lphuberdeau@sy mpatico.ca> wrote in
news:cDXTa.7043 $1I5.869622@new s20.bellglobal. com:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> D Benfer wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Im a bit thrown by curl. I want to submit some order data on an
>> ecommerce site via a form to a php page, where the data is saved to a
>> database. Then I want to use curl to submit the form data I just
>> saved (and redirect the user) to my secure credit card gateway.
>>
>> Problem is, they have their own secure payment screen where the
>> credit card information is entered. I can't just retrieve the
>> variable with a transaction success/failure setting. Plus, the curl
>> code I use sends me there as if I was still on my own server. No
>> secure connection, and the graphics on their server tries to load
>> from mine. Looks very poor.
>>
>> Anyway, here's the code:
>>
>> $ch = curl_init("http s://server.com/payment.url");
>> curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
>> curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_POST, 1);
>> curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_POSTFIE LDS, $postdata);
>> curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_FOLLOWL OCATION, 1);
>> curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_REFERER , "http://site.com/payment.html");
>> curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_RETURNT RANSFER, 0);
>> curl_exec($ch);
>> curl_close($ch) ;
>>
>>
>> I guess my question is - is there an option in curl to acutally get
>> the browser to follow the posted data as if I clicked the button on a
>> page? FOLLOWLOCATION does not get me there for some reason.
>>
>> All help is greatly appreciated!
>>
>> DB
>>[/color]
>
> Well, you just skipped the secure part anyway. From the HTML form to
> your script which should redirect the connection, your connexion
> wasn't secure, the data was not safe. cURL will handle the secure
> connection from the script to the other form processor, but your
> connection won't be secured by that.
>
> The best you can do is get the POST response by the secure server into
> a string, analyse the result and display your own page. The default
> behavior of cURL is to output the ressponse direcly, you can use
> output buffering to solve that problem. (ob_start() and such).
>[/color]

Ah, ok. So the person who referred this to me was incorrect. I was told
this would _redirect_ you to a page. It just fetches the resulting page,
eh? No wonder I searched and searched and never found an answer! Thanks
for the response!

DB