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Posted by ReGenesis0 on 05/31/07 00:10
Okay, so I want to do this THANG, which involves some fairly ugly
screenscraping since it's a mashup with another site that doesn't have
friendly, mashable, controls.
Problem- I need to log into the site from a PHP script- and when I
send my login info, it responds with the following:
Download the Flash plugin.
You must have cookies enabled to use the site. Please enable cookies
and click here.
The possible causes of this problem are:
* Your browser is setup to block cookies.
* Your firewall is setup to block cookies.
* Your AntiVirus program is setup to block cookies.
I gather the server is using something to test for flash, and then
settignt he appropriate cookie. I don't care about the flash- all i
need is the HTML on the next page. So how do I accept its cookie so
that I can scrape this?
(Ironically, none of this is strictly necessary for the mashup- but I
have to do this part to verify login names in order to keep users from
messing with other users' accounts. Clearly I am a saint for enduring
this unnecessary suffering.)
-Derik
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