Are you leaving anything out of the command lines you showed?? If not,
I'd say you're not sending those cookies back to the server...

All you get with "-D cookie.txt" is a dump of the headers sent back by the
server. Curl only writes to that file, it doesn't read from it. You would
be better off with something like:

       -b cookies.txt -c cookies.txt

instead of -D cookies.txt

Ralph Mitchell

On 11/26/05, Mike <Mike_at_knickerblogger.net> wrote:
>
> I'd like to access yahoo's login in order to curl some information from
> yahoo's fantasy sports. I am doing this from windows using curl &
> vbscript.
> I've tried following the steps from an archived post where someone talked
> about accessing yahoo's login:
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> (http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2002-03/0203.html)
>
> The simplest case is:
> (User agent set to something like Links, lynx, unknown, but not
> mozilla;
> otherwise, the server will be more demanding)
> 1. Get mail.yahoo.com
> 2. Redirected to login.mail.yahoo.com ( You will get a cookie "B"
> here)
> 3. Find and fill all the form entry and formulate a POST request
> 4. Send our the Post request with the Cookie you have (referer
> filled with
> login.mail.yahoo.com)
> 5. Then, you should get a redirect reply with 3/4 more cookies ("T",
> "Y",
> ....)
> 6. Then, just get the redirected URL with all the cookies you have.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> So far I've been able to replicate some steps.
>
> Steps 1 & 2 look like this:
>
> curl\curl.exe -A "Lynx/2.7.1 libwww-FM/2.14" -o _url1.txt -D
> _cookie1.txt
> "http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.done=http://fantasysports.yahoo.com"
>
> At this point _cookie1.txt has cookie 'B', and the page is saved to
> _url1.txt.
>
> I'm able to do step 3 as well (using a vbscript to parse _url1.txt & get
> all
> the input names & values for POST), but this is when I run into problems.
> For step 4 I run:
>
> curl\curl.exe -A "Lynx/2.7.1 libwww-FM/2.14" -o _url2.txt -D
> _cookie1.txt
> -d
>
> ".tries=1&.src=&.md5=&.hash=&.js=&.last=&promo=&.intl=us&.bypass=&.partner=&
>
> .u=XXX&.v=0&.challenge=XXX&.yplus=&.emailCode=&pkg=&stepid=&.ev=&hasMsgr=0&.
> chkP=Y&.done=
> http://fantasysports.yahoo.com&login=YYY&passwd=YYY&.persistent
> =y"
> "http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.done=http://fantasysports.yahoo.com"
>
> Where I get the values for XXX from the _url1.txt and YYY is my username &
> password. Also in _cookie1.txt there exists values for cookies 'F', 'Y', &
> 'T'. However the file _url2.txt never gets created. Furthermore using that
> cookie I try to access my intended web page, without success (I get 'No
> Teams' - meaning that Yahoo doesn't see anyone logged in).
>
> (curl\curl.exe -A "Lynx/2.7.1 libwww-FM/2.14" -o _url3.txt -D
> _cookie1.txt "http://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/nba")
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>
>
Received on 2005-11-27