Posted by Andy Hassall on 09/14/06 22:52

On 14 Sep 2006 07:27:16 -0700, gehegeradeaus@gmail.com wrote:

>I used curl a few times now, and it always worked fine... but now I
>have a little question:
>
>If I post to a certain url , and that page returns a file for download.
>(it doesn't display anything)
>
>How can accept the download, and read the contents...?
>
>My code :
>
>$postarr["user"] = "user";
>$postarr["pw"] = "pw";
>
>$ch = curl_init();
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.website.com/page.asp");
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postarr);
>$data = curl_exec($ch);
>curl_close($ch);

Does this not work?
Have you tried turning CURLOPT_VERBOSE on to work out why?
At a wild guess do you need CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION?

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