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Login to site with PHP cURL

I'm trying login to a remote site, by having curl to the login form.
I want to redirect to another subdomain and get content.
The code I have doesn't seem to work and only tries to show the main page of the site.
<?php
$username = 'user';
$password = 'pass';
$loginUrl = 'https://site_url';
//init curl
$ch = curl_init();
//Set the URL to work with
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $loginUrl);
// ENABLE HTTP POST
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
//Set the post parameters
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'user='.$username.'&password='.$password);
//Handle cookies for the login
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookie.txt');
//Setting CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER variable to 1 will force cURL
//not to print out the results of its query.
//Instead, it will return the results as a string return value
//from curl_exec() instead of the usual true/false.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//execute the request (the login)
$store = curl_exec($ch);
//the login is now done and you can continue to get the
//protected content.
//set the URL to the protected file
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://site_url/statistics');
//execute the request
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
//save the data to disk
file_put_contents('~/file.txt', $content);
?>

Does it have to be via cURL?
Have you considered leveraging a library like Guzzle?
They have good documentation that covers scenarios as you have described.
https://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/quickstart.html#post-form-requests
Something like the below but could be laid out better
use GuzzleHttp\Client;
use GuzzleHttp\Exception\BadResponseException;
$client = new Client(['base_uri' => 'https://url_site/', 'cookies' => true]);
// Login
try {
$client->request(
'POST',
'login/',
[
'form_params' => [
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password,
],
]
);
} catch (BadResponseException $e) {
echo "Error Logging On for User {$username}";
exit;
}
// Navigate
$response = $client->request('GET', '/statistics');
$content = $response->getBody()->getContents();
file_put_contents('~/file.txt', $content);

Need to call SAP web service to send XML file from web page using JavaScript

We need to call an SAP web service from our website and submit an XML file to the SAP url. SAP API has credentials.
The purpose is to execute a function module in SAP which creates an SAP user ID and then returns the SAP user ID name back to our website via a return xml.
Below is the PHP code which i have tried.
<?php
$credentials = "Username:Password";
// Read the XML to send to the Web Service
$request_file = "m2bsubscr.XML";
$fh = fopen($request_file, 'r');
$xml_data = fread($fh, filesize($request_file));
fclose($fh);
$url = "SAP API HERE";
$headers = array(
"Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
"Accept: text/xml",
"Cache-Control: no-cache",
"Pragma: no-cache",
"SOAPAction: \"run\"",
"Content-length: ".strlen($xml_data),
"Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($credentials)
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $defined_vars['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
// Apply the XML to our curl call
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_data);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
print "Error: " . curl_error($ch);
} else {
// Show me the result
echo "Success!<br />\n";
}
curl_close($ch);
// Handle the response from a successful request
$xmlobj = simplexml_load_string($data);
var_dump($xmlobj);
?>
My XML File:
<n0:_-majul_-m2bSubscriptionCreate xmlns:n0="urn:sap-com:document:sap:soap:functions:mc-style">
<IsSubscription>
<Bupar></Bupar>
<Sstat></Sstat>
<Categ></Categ>
<Fname>Wolfgang</Fname>
<Lname>Haerle</Lname>
<Email>whaerle#hotmail.com</Email>
<Srmrk></Srmrk>
<Cczip></Cczip>
<Cccty></Cccty>
<Ccadr></Ccadr>
<Cntry>US</Cntry>
<Product>1</Product>
<Begda>2020-07-08</Begda>
<Endda>2020-08-08</Endda>
<Price>765</Price>
<Curr>USD</Curr>
<Quantity>1</Quantity>
<Unit>MON</Unit>
<Userid></Userid>
</IsSubscription>
</n0:_-majul_-m2bSubscriptionCreate>
but it returns Success with bool(false) as a result. I tried to display error but it has no error.
Please help me to find what is the issue.
I wanted to do this in JavaScript. Kindly suggest me the way to do.

Soundcloud PUT API returning 401

I am trying to update soundcloud track details using HTTP API with CURL. I am getting 401 Unauthorized error as response eventhough I have passed my Client ID.
PUT https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/11111111?client_id=12345666666
The response is
{
"errors": [
{
"error_message": "401 - Unauthorized"
}
]
}
Also wondering if I can pass access_token with the request.

If you want to pass your token, simply append "&oauth_token=" + TOKEN_VALUE
https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/11111111?client_id=12345666666&oauth_token=YOUR_TOKEN
Edited to add example code
Here is an example of PUT using Curl & with PHP for soundcloud auth token. This code is from a working soundcloud project.
$data = array(
'code' => $token,
'client_id' => $this->getClientId(false), // your client ID
'client_secret' => $this->getClientSecret(), // your client secret
'redirect_uri' => $this->getCallback(), // callback URL
'grant_type' => 'authorization_code'
);
$url = "https://api.soundcloud.com/oauth2/token";
try {
$ch = curl_init();
// set options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$header_size = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);
$header = substr($response, 0, $header_size);
$body = substr($response, $header_size);
// read / process result
curl_close($ch);
} catch(Exception $e) {
// error handling...
}

This may work. Try turning off various CURL options. In my case I had PUT working under PHP5.5 but after migrating to new server with PHP7 the POST operation would fail until I set CURLOPT_SAFE_UPLOAD to false for soundcloud POST operations (file uploads); however after making this change to all my curl inits, my PUT operations failed because they also had safeupload set to false, so I removed this setting from my PUT operations and the PUT operations started working.
In short, try turning off SAFE UPLOAD option for your PUT operations.
More info about this curl option on this post.

Saving facebook profile picture takes too long

I have a simple Christmas image editor website, and I need to save user's facebook profile picture in order to do it. It works, but takes way too long (between 15-30 seconds), and I have no idea why.
I use javascript to deal with the login stuff, and after that, I use user's id to get the profile picture. I believe the issue occurs after that:
Since this url is not the real path to the image, I have to redirect it first, and then save it. This is my PHP code:
<?php
//just getting the file from the URL
$file = explode('/',$_GET["var1"]);
//if it's from facebook, not uploaded
if( $file[1] != "uploads"){
$saveto = "uploads/".$file[3].".jpg";
$ch = curl_init(get_right_url("http:".$_GET["var1"]));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
$raw=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
if(file_exists($saveto)){
unlink($saveto);
}
$fp = fopen($saveto,'x');
fwrite($fp, $raw);
fclose($fp);
}
function get_right_url($url) {
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
return curl_redir_exec($curl);
}
function curl_redir_exec($ch)
{
static $curl_loops = 0;
static $curl_max_loops = 20;
if ($curl_loops++ >= $curl_max_loops)
{
$curl_loops = 0;
return FALSE;
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
#list($header, $data) = #explode("\n\n", $data, 2);
$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($http_code == 301 || $http_code == 302)
{
$matches = array();
preg_match('/Location:(.*?)\n/', $header, $matches);
$url = #parse_url(trim(array_pop($matches)));
if (!$url)
{
//couldn't process the url to redirect to
$curl_loops = 0;
return $data;
}
$last_url = parse_url(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL));
if (!$url['scheme'])
$url['scheme'] = $last_url['scheme'];
if (!$url['host'])
$url['host'] = $last_url['host'];
if (!$url['path'])
$url['path'] = $last_url['path'];
$new_url = $url['scheme'] . '://' . $url['host'] . $url['path'] . (#$url['query']?'?'.$url['query']:'');
return $new_url;
} else {
$curl_loops=0;
return $data;
}
}
?>
I'm sure i'm doing something wrong, it shouldn't be this painful to upload a small image like this one. I'd be grateful for any help, thanks a lot.

fixed. got the "real link" for the image with facebook's API
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/using-pictures/
curl was delaying it a lot...

Javascript to make Post or Get call to a URL and return the text that's on the page

I've been trying to do this all morning I need to make either a POST or a GET call to this
URL http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php
I need it to return the text that's on the page, I know it can't be that difficult but I'm completely code blocked on this one,
I've tried using JQuerys .post and .get functions but I cant seem to return just the text on the page
any help would be appriciated
EDIT:
Ah ok so there's a technical reason for not being able to do it. balls, Thanks for the help guys

(function ($) {
$.ajax({
url: 'http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php',
type: 'text',
success: function (response) {
//do something with the text from the site
}
});
}(jQuery));
Obviously you need to host this script on the URL you are loading because of the same origin policy

You are running into the cross domain limitation. You can only to a request to a page in the same domain.

There is another possibility if you need to post calls to a page on another domain. Let's say your Javascript is being run from index.php. You might create a file called ctexter.php.
ctexter.php would use curl to make the post request to http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php, and would then output the response (the output from) send.php. So, if index.php makes an ajax call to ctexter.php, and ctexter.php is outputting the response from send.php, you have in effect achieved your goal.
You could make the curl post requests with this function:
function post_request($url, $data) {
$output = array();
foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
if(is_object($value) || is_array($value)){
$data[$key] = serialize($value);
}
}
$output = array();
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if ($result) {
$output['status'] = "ok";
$output['content'] = $result;
} else {
$output['status'] = "failure";
$output['error'] = curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
return $output;
}
where $url is (obviously) the url to post to, and $data is an associative array containing the data you want to submit.
Then on ctexter.php you could do something like:
// Since we already built the post array in the
// ajax call, we'll just pass it right through
$response = post_request("http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php", $_POST);
if($response['status'] == "ok"){
echo $response['content'];
}
else{
echo "It didn't work";
}
Finally, hit ctexter.php using JQuery .post():
$.post("ctexter.php",
{
firstparamname: "firstparamvalue",
somethingelse: "llama"
},
function(data) {
alert("It worked! Data Loaded: " + data);
});

If you're on the same domain, you'd use some code like this:
var ajax = new XMLHttpRequest();
ajax.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if (ajax.readyState==4 && ajax.status==200)
{
document.getElementById("targetElementID").textContent = ajax.responseText;
}
}
ajax.open("GET","http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php",true);
ajax.send();
Learn how to use AJAX
If not, then, sorry, you're out of luck because you'll run into the same origin policy error.

There is a way to make a request to that URL and get around the same origin policy. Put something like a PHP script on your own domain that makes a request to http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php and then call your own script from the javascript.
If your host supports PHP and cURL a script like this would do the job:
<?php
$url="http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php";
$post="";
if(strstr($url,"?")){
$split=explode("?",$url);
$url=$split[0];
$post=$split[1];
}
$ch = curl_init ($url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
if($post!=""){
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
}else{
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print $result;
?>