Cookies with Curl help

Question

I need to access a certain URL and load the file 'cookies.txt' the problem is the following I access the URL normally plus Cookies.txt does not load...

I think the problem is here in this part

$cookiepattern = "#Set-Cookie:\\s+(?<cookie>[^=]+=[^;]+)#m"; 
preg_match_all($cookiepattern, $header_content, $matches); 
$cookiesOut = implode("; ", $matches['cookie']);

$Matches['cookie']); returns me an empty array...

file 'cookies.txt'

Netscape HTTP Cookie File

This file was generated by libcurl! Edit at your Own risk. .auto.com TRUE / FALSE 1452087781 ___suid 2ecfe4287cbeacd8399eaf98bec9ce0b.59089b9d033bc7c6dce8ea2fca139920

.auto.com TRUE / FALSE 1452865380 all7_user_region_confirmed 1 .auto.com TRUE / FALSE 1452865380 geo_location a%3A3%3A%7Bs%3A7%3A%22city_id%22%3ba%3A0%3A%7B%7Ds%3A9%3A%22region_id%22%3ba%3A1%3A%7Bi%3A0%3bi%3A89%3B%7Ds%3A10%3A%22country_id%22%3ba%3A0%3A%7B%7D .auto.com TRUE / FALSE 1423921380 autoru_sid ee094d60fa32eada_daf2da69dc79a59b7c8702a29554abbc .auth.auto.com TRUE / FALSE 1421329026 autoru_sid
.auth.auto.com TRUE / FALSE 1421329026 autoru_sid_key
.auto.com TRUE / FALSE 1421329026 cc6882cb6b6f0c912cf9589734fcc1e6
.auto.com TRUE / FALSE 1452865027 user_name Igor.savinkin5%40gmail.com .auto.com TRUE / FALSE 1452865027 username Igor.savinkin5%40gmail.com

until the moment I have the following,

iasdadsadsadsadafunction get_web_page( $url ){
    $options = array( 
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // to return web page
        CURLOPT_HEADER         => true, // to return headers in addition to content
        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, // to follow redirects
        CURLOPT_ENCODING       => "",   // to handle all encodings
        CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER    => true, // to set referer on redirect
        CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,  // set a timeout on connect
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,  // set a timeout on response
        CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10,   // to stop after 10 redirects
        CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT    => true, // no header out
        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,// to disable SSL Cert checks
        CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION   => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    );

    $handle = curl_init( $url );
    curl_setopt_array( $handle, $options );

// additional for storing cookie 
    $tmpfname = dirname(__FILE__).'cookie.txt';
    curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $tmpfname);
    curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $tmpfname);

    $raw_content = curl_exec( $handle );
    $err = curl_errno( $handle );
    $errmsg = curl_error( $handle );
    $header = curl_getinfo( $handle ); 
    curl_close( $handle );

    $header_content = substr($raw_content, 0, $header['header_size']);
    $body_content = trim(str_replace($header_content, '', $raw_content));

// let's extract cookie from raw content for the viewing purpose         
    $cookiepattern = "#Set-Cookie:\\s+(?<cookie>[^=]+=[^;]+)#m"; 
    preg_match_all($cookiepattern, $header_content, $matches); 
    $cookiesOut = implode("; ", $matches['cookie']);

    $header['errno']   = $err;
    $header['errmsg']  = $errmsg;
    $header['headers']  = $header_content;
    $header['content'] = $body_content;
    $header['cookies'] = $cookiesOut;
return $header;}$header=get_web_page('http://www.minhaurl.com.br');print_r($header);

In short, I want to access a url and force the entry of cookies 'visited websites'

Answer 1

All you need to do is use:

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'caminho/cookie.txt')

This will load the cookies that were previously saved, provided you specify the correct file. The CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR will save the cookies, the CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE will read saved cookies, as I have explained here.

If you save in this format then use this way, if you do not want to use Netscape format do not use CURLOPT_COOKIE_JAR. It makes no sense to use this if you want to extract the data otherwise or edit the data that has been saved.

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You can also use the CURLINFO_COOKIELIST or the CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION to extract cookies. But, since you are already saving cookies using the COOKIEJAR it would be more appropriate to use the COOKIEFILE.