Login with curl and move to another page

Question

I'm trying to access one page in a website with CURL, however it needs to be logged in i tried the code to login and it was successful

<?php

    $user_agent       = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20140319 Firefox/24.0 Iceweasel/24.4.0";
    $curl_crack = curl_init();

    CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.vininspect.com/en/account/login");
    CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,$user_agent);
    CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_PROXY,"183.78.169.60:37899");
    CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE,CURLPROXY_SOCKS5);
    CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_POST,True);
    CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"LoginForm[email]=naceriwalid%40hotmail.com&LoginForm[password]=passwordhere&toploginform[rememberme]=0&yt1=&toploginform[rememberme]=0");
    CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,True);
    CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,True);
    CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE,"cookie.txt"); //Put the full path of the cookie file if you want it to write on it
    CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,"cookie.txt"); //Put the full path of the cookie file if you want it to write on it
    CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,30);
    CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,30);  

    $exec = curl_exec($curl_crack);
    if(preg_match("/^you are logged|logout|successfully logged$/i",$exec))
    {
        echo "yoooha";
    }

?>

Now the only problem I'm facing let's say that i don't want to be redirected to the logged in page, i want to be redirected to this page http://example.com/buy, how i can do that in the same code?

Answer 1

If you want to go to /buy after you log in, just use the same curl handle and issue another request for that page. cURL will retain the cookies for the duration of the handle (and on subsequent requests since you are saving them to a file and reading them back with the cookie jar.

For example:

$user_agent       = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20140319 Firefox/24.0 Iceweasel/24.4.0";
$curl_crack = curl_init();

CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.vininspect.com/en/account/login");
CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,$user_agent);
CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_PROXY,"183.78.169.60:37899");
CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE,CURLPROXY_SOCKS5);
CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_POST,True);
CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"LoginForm[email]=naceriwalid%40hotmail.com&LoginForm[password]=passwordhere&toploginform[rememberme]=0&yt1=&toploginform[rememberme]=0");
CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,True);
CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,True);
CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE,"cookie.txt"); //Put the full path of the cookie file if you want it to write on it
CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,"cookie.txt"); //Put the full path of the cookie file if you want it to write on it
CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,30);
CURL_SETOPT($curl_crack,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,30);  

$exec = curl_exec($curl_crack);
if(preg_match("/^you are logged|logout|successfully logged$/i",$exec))
{
    $post = array('search' => 'keyword', 'abc' => 'xyz');

    curl_setopt($curl_crack, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // change back to GET
    curl_setopt($curl_crack, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($post)); // set post data
    curl_setopt($curl_crack, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.com/buy'); // set url for next request

    $exec = curl_exec($curl_crack); // make request to buy on the same handle with the current login session
}

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