Pretend to supply a cookie?

[Stephen Oakes]

Hi all,
I am writing a web page which does the following:
- performs HTTP requests to several specific pages
- parses the results
- displays customised versions of the data.

I use fopen and it is really pretty straightforward , EXCEPT that one of the
sites does not operate without cookies. So, although I can view the site
using a browser, I cannot read it using fopen (well, actually I get the page
that says I need to enable cookies, but I don't get the data I want.)

Is there any way I can pretend that I have a cookie from PHP?

--
Stephen Oakes

[Matthias Esken]

Re: Pretend to supply a cookie?

Stephen Oakes wrote:
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> Is there any way I can pretend that I have a cookie from PHP?[/color]

http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Client works fine for me.

Matthias

[Chung Leong]

Re: Pretend to supply a cookie?


"Stephen Oakes" <soakes1@XXXbig pond.net.au> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I am writing a web page which does the following:
> - performs HTTP requests to several specific pages
> - parses the results
> - displays customised versions of the data.
>
> I use fopen and it is really pretty straightforward , EXCEPT that one of[/color]
the[color=blue]
> sites does not operate without cookies. So, although I can view the site
> using a browser, I cannot read it using fopen (well, actually I get the[/color]
page[color=blue]
> that says I need to enable cookies, but I don't get the data I want.)
>
> Is there any way I can pretend that I have a cookie from PHP?
>
> --
> Stephen Oakes
>[/color]

Pass a stream context with a cookie to fopen(). See
http://www.php.net/stream-context-create/.