Writing Yahoo! Bot: Why can't I fetch a web page on Yahoo! mail with help of PHP?

Question

I want to write a bot that fetches my mail on Yahoo! but my first problem is I can't fetch the web page where login and password have to be filled in. I do it so:

<?php
$the_url = "http://www.yahoo.com/r/l6";

$ua_s = "Opera/9.62 (Windows NT 5.1; U; En) Presto/2.1.1";

$c = curl_init($the_url);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $ua_s);
$the_page = curl_exec($c);
curl_close($c); 

echo $the_page;
?>

But when I do that I get a blank page.

Answer 1

You probably want to set the CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION option to true as the url that you supplied does a redirect.

Answer 2

You could use pop access.

Answer 3

Пиздец. Вопрос закрыт

Answer 4

Use the PEAR::HTTP_REQUEST it's more clean!

Or better PEAR::Mail_IMAP this won't violating the terms of ...