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Re: Save CURL sessions

From: Harry Fearnley <Harry.Fearnley_at_eng.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:33:57 +0100

Tommaso Trani wrote:

> I would like to handle a curl connection between multiple executions of my
> php script.
> For example I make a login to a private area (with curl) and then I wont
> make some action in this area.
> I would like to make just one time the login, than save the curl session
> informations in a cookie, file or php session. So I can get this info
> between multiple executions of my php script avoiding to make again the
> login.
>
> Is it possible? I've tried to store the resource returned by curl_init in a
> sessions, but, of course, this way doesn't work because it's a resource and
> not a structured variable (I've tried using serialize, but it's a resource
> and doesn't work).

If I have understood you correctly ...

Can you make the action of the HTML form to call itself again,
and simply pass the information as HIDDEN values in a form?
Something like this:

<FORM ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" ACTION="this_file.html" METHOD="post">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="hidden1" VALUE="10485760">

Harry

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Received on 2004-10-12