[timmerk]

Hi,

Is there an option to make curl not get the HTML? I just want it to get the cookie of a page.

Also, how can I submit a form with curl using PHP? I know what data needs to be sent.

Thanks!

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by timmerk:
Hi,

Is there an option to make curl not get the HTML? I just want it to get the cookie of a page.

Also, how can I submit a form with curl using PHP? I know what data needs to be sent.

To get the cookies:

Code:
       -D/--dump-header <file>
              Write the protocol headers to the specified file.

              This option is handy to use when you want to store  the  cookies
              that a HTTP site sends to you. The cookies could then be read in
              a second curl invoke by using the -b/--cookie option!

              When used on FTP, the ftp server response lines  are  considered
              being "headers" and thus are saved there.

              If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

To submit a form:

Code:
       -d/--data <data>
              (HTTP) Sends the specified data in a POST request  to  the  HTTP
              server,  in  a way that can emulate as if a user has filled in a
              HTML form and pressed the submit button. Note that the  data  is
              sent  exactly  as  specified  with no extra processing (with all
              newlines cut off).  The data is expected  to  be  "url-encoded".
              This  will  cause  curl to pass the data to the server using the
              content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare  to  -F.
              If  more  than  one -d/--data option is used on the same command
              line, the data pieces specified will be merged together  with  a
              separating &-letter. Thus, using '-d name=daniel -d skill=lousy'
              would    generate    a    post    chunk    that    looks    like
              'name=daniel&skill=lousy'.

              If  you  start  the data with the letter @, the rest should be a
              file name to read the data from, or - if you want curl  to  read
              the  data  from stdin.  The contents of the file must already be
              url-encoded. Multiple files can also be specified. Posting  data
              from a file named 'foobar' would thus be done with "--data @foo-
              bar".

              To post data purely binary, you should instead use  the  --data-
              binary option.

              -d/--data is the same as --data-ascii.

              If  this  option  is  used several times, the ones following the
              first will append data.

All this and more are in the man pages for curl. On the command line type "man curl" for all the details.