i am new to curl .and i m trying to create create a script to log into yahoo and click the confermation link in emails.
but i am stuck witht he login process only
i made the code below . but still i cant make it work. the problem is yahoo is implementing a captcha challange for this kind of automated headers. do you have any idea ho to make it work again without alerting the captcha challange ?
the header i caught through the livehttp header is as follows:
Content-Length: 347
.tries=1&.src=ym&.md5=&.hash=&.js=&.last=&promo=&.intl=in&.bypass=&.partner=&.u=4ls6cr96lbs8e&.v=0&.challenge=W9w31pCrbdazCcY4mH41fVsyxwd8&.yplus=&.emailCode=&pkg=&stepid=&.ev=&hasMsgr=0&.chkP=Y&.done=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.yahoo.com&.pd=ym_ver%3D0%26c%3D%26ivt%3D%26sg%3D&pad=1&aad=1&login=myyahooid&passwd=mypassword&.persistent=y&.save=&passwd_raw=
[PHP]<?php
$authUrl = "https: //login. yahoo . com/config/login?";
$userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b11) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b11";
$referer = "http : // my . yahoo . com";
$login = "userid";
$password = "password";
$numPostData = 22;
$cookieFileJar = "ycookie.txt";
$cookie = 0;
$postData = ".tries=1&.src=ym&.md5=&.hash=&.js=&.last=&promo=&.intl=in&.bypass=&.partner=&.u=4ls6cr96lbs8e&.v=0&.challenge=W9w31pCrbdazCcY4mH41fVsyxwd8&.yplus=&.emailCode=&pkg=&stepid=&.ev=&hasMsgr=0&.chkP=Y&.done=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.yahoo.com&.pd=ym_ver%3D0%26c%3D%26ivt%3D%26sg%3D&pad=1&aad=1&login=$login&passwd=$password&.persistent=y&.save=&passwd_raw=" ;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent);
// Set the referrer
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
// Set the authentication url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $authUrl);
// Set number of post fields
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, $numPostData);
//Set post data in key=value pair such as login=yourusername
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $numPostData);
//Set filename for storing cookie information
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookieFileJar);
//Set ffilename for checking the stored cookie information
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookieFileJar);
//Set option for cookie
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookie);
//set this to output the result as string and not output directly ot browser
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
//set this value to 1 if you want to redirect to the url you provided as service url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
//Set this option if you do not want to verify ssl
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
//set this option if you do not want to verify peer’s certificate
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
//now execute the curl
$res = curl_exec($ch);
echo $res;
//check if the username and password is valid
if ((preg_match("/invalid/i", $res)) || (preg_match("/not yet taken/i", $res))) {
echo “Invalid Login”;
}
else {
//if CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is set to 1 then after logging in successfully user is directed to url that is specified as service url
echo “Logged In”;
}
?>[/PHP]