OK, this is probably a silly question, but did you really mean what you put in your $postfields variable?? I mean, it kinda looks like you dropped a '&' right in the middle there, but if that's how it really oughta be, then OK...

        ...&submit=1divfel=F&...

Ralph Mitchell

Joseph E. Glass wrote:

>Hi fellow Curl users,
>
>I'm having trouble getting a particular post to work. The page that I
>am posting to by default has very general search results, so I'm trying
>to modify the search criteria. The problem is, instead of bringing me
>to a new search results page, it just brings me to general default page.
>I've gotten posts to work on the same server before, so this is very
>confusing.
>
>Below is the specific code I am using for this page. I'm using a cookie
>that was previously set, I'm sending MS IE 6 as my agent, and I'm
>setting the correct referrer. Also, see below for the header contents
>and the output of formfield.pl on this page. Any help is appreciated.
>
>Thank you!
>Joseph Glass
>Michigan State University
>
>$referer = "http://www5.apa.org/membership/";
>$url = "http://www5.apa.org/membership/divroster.cfm";
>$postfields = "divnum=12&submit=1divfel=F&divmem=M&divassoc=";
>
>$ch = curl_init();
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // Save to variable
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referrer);
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); // Get the header?
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "$cookie_jar"); // Save for later
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "$cookie_jar"); // Now use the
>cookie
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); // Allow redirection?
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
>curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "$postfields");
>$tmp3 = curl_exec($ch);
>curl_close($ch);
>unset($ch);
>
>-------------------------------------
>HTTP/1.1 100 Continue Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003
>01:57:15 GMT HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Mon, 07 Jul
>2003 01:57:15 GMT Connection: close Content-type: text/html
>Page-Completion-Status: Normal Page-Completion-Status: Normal
>Set-Cookie: CFID=2048518; path=/; Set-Cookie:
>--------------------------------------
>
>--- FORM report. Uses POST to URL "http://search2.apa.org/results.cfm"
>--- end of FORM
>--- FORM report. Uses POST to URL "division.cfm"
>Select: NAME="divnum"
> Option VALUE="01"
> Option VALUE="02"
> Option VALUE="03"
> Option VALUE="05"
> Option VALUE="06"
> Option VALUE="07"
> Option VALUE="08"
> Option VALUE="09"
> Option VALUE="10"
> Option VALUE="12"
> Option VALUE="13"
> Option VALUE="14"
> Option VALUE="15"
> Option VALUE="16"
> Option VALUE="17"
> Option VALUE="18"
> Option VALUE="19"
> Option VALUE="20"
> Option VALUE="21"
> Option VALUE="22"
> Option VALUE="23"
> Option VALUE="24"
> Option VALUE="25"
> Option VALUE="26"
> Option VALUE="27"
> Option VALUE="28"
> Option VALUE="29"
> Option VALUE="30"
> Option VALUE="31"
> Option VALUE="32"
> Option VALUE="33"
> Option VALUE="34"
> Option VALUE="35"
> Option VALUE="36"
> Option VALUE="37"
> Option VALUE="38"
> Option VALUE="39"
> Option VALUE="40"
> Option VALUE="41"
> Option VALUE="42"
> Option VALUE="43"
> Option VALUE="44"
> Option VALUE="45"
> Option VALUE="46"
> Option VALUE="47"
> Option VALUE="48"
> Option VALUE="49"
> Option VALUE="50"
> Option VALUE="51"
> Option VALUE="52"
> Option VALUE="53"
> Option VALUE="54"
> Option VALUE="55"
>[end of select]
>Input: NAME="submit" (IMAGE)
>Input: NAME="divfel" VALUE="F" (CHECKBOX)
>Input: NAME="divmem" VALUE="M" (CHECKBOX)
>Input: NAME="divassoc" VALUE="A" (CHECKBOX)
>--- end of FORM
>
>
>
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