Trouble logging in via php/curl - php

Question

I have a problem with curl. I need to extract data from my profile with website (validity of the account). The problem is the lack of logging.
$login = "user";
$password = "passtest";
$ckfile = tempnam("./cookies", "cookies.txt");
$page_login = "http://host.tv/login.html";
$page_download = "http://host.tv/profil.html";
$post_data = "?login=$login&pass=$password";
$agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3";
$headers = array();
$headers[] = 'GET /login.html HTTP/1.1';
$headers[] = 'Host: host.tv';
$headers[] = 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8';
$headers[] = 'Accept-Language: pl-PL,pl;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4';
$headers[] = 'Referer: http://host.tv/login.html';
$headers[] = 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1';
$headers[] = 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.111 Safari/537.36';
$connect = curl_init ();
curl_setopt($connect, CURLOPT_URL, $page_login);
curl_setopt($connect, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 1);
curl_setopt($connect, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $ckfile);
curl_setopt($connect, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $ckfile);
curl_setopt($connect, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 40);
curl_setopt($connect, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($connect, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($connect, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($connect, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($connect, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($connect, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($connect, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
curl_exec($connect);
curl_setopt($connect, CURLOPT_URL, $page_download);
$page = curl_exec($connect);
curl_close($connect);
echo $page;
The script does not logged do Accounts.

Answer 1

you are doing some mistakes here,
1: don't manually create the GET / header, let curl create it for you with CURLOPT_URL / CURLOPT_HTTPGET
2: logging in is not a GET operation, its a POST operation.
and there's a lack of error checking on the curl return values.
here's an example of logging in, going to the profile page, and extract the account type (i guess it says "free account" or something, but i dont speak that language), using hhb_curl from https://github.com/divinity76/hhb_.inc.php/blob/master/hhb_.inc.php
<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
require_once('hhb_.inc.php');
hhb_init();
$hc=new hhb_curl();
$hc->_setComfortableOptions();
//getting a session
$hc->exec('http://host.tv/login.html');
//logging in
$username='user';
$password='passtest';
$hc->setopt_array(array(
CURLOPT_POST=>true,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS=>http_build_query(array(
'login'=>$username,
'pass'=>$password,
'logged'=>''//??
))
));
$hc->exec('http://host.tv/login.html');
//TODO: confirm login was successful
$hc->exec('http://host.tv/profil.html');
//extract "account type" from your profile
$domd=#DOMDocument::loadHTML($hc->getResponseBody());
$accountType=trim(preg_replace('/\s+/', "\n", $domd->getElementById("content-top-right")->textContent));
echo $accountType.PHP_EOL;
output:
Konto:
Standard
Ważne
do:
Brak