Curl post request fails - bugs in a script or blocked? - php

Question

I'm trying to post a request to http://iate.europa.eu/ using the following script:
<?php
$output_array = array();
$post = "method=search&saveStats=true&screenSize=1920x1080&query=bond&valid=Szukaj+&sourceLanguage=en&targetLanguages=pl&domain=&domain=12&typeOfSearch=s&request=";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://iate.europa.eu/SearchByQueryEdit.do');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
echo $server_output = curl_exec ($ch);
?>
The data I used:
When I run the script, I get "Access Denied. Your request has been denied for security reason."
Does the script trigger some security mechansims or does it simply make bad requests?
Thx in advance,
Lukasz

Answer 1

I have added an agent. Try this:
$post = "method=search&saveStats=true&screenSize=1920x1080&query=bond&valid=Szukaj+&sourceLanguage=en&targetLanguages=pl&domain=&domain=12&typeOfSearch=s&request=";
$ch = curl_init();
/* Additional Code Start */
$agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
/* Additional Code End*/
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://iate.europa.eu/SearchByQueryEdit.do');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
echo $server_output = curl_exec ($ch);