Setting a cookie for cURL to use.

Question

I am retrieving another page using cURL, and unless I have a certain cookie I cannot see the page content. The cookie name is seepage and its value must be set to 1 for me to see the page content.

I would like to load this page using cURL, and this is the script I have at the moment:

<?php

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.pixhost.org/images/531/1245992_untitled-2.jpg');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, 'tmpfile.tmp');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'tmpfile.tmp');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'tmpfile.tmp');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

print_r($result);

?>

However, $result is an empty variable for which I can confirm with if(empty($result)). How would I set cURL to use a cookie called seepage with the cookie value being 1?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The value of the cookie is 'seepage=1':

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, 'seepage=1');

and you'll need to remove the existing line for CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE