curl fails to correctly send headers - php

Question

My initial project was of checking whether a certain Apple ID exists or not, I have proceeded doing this in php by navigating to apppleid.apple.com/account/ and pretending to register an account with all the fields blank except the account field, and if I got an error it meant the account existed, otherwise If I got other errors but not an "account exists" error I would return false. However I have encountered a few problems on the way. The first was that you need to preserve all the headers/cookies on the way (which I did) but it still does not work, and apparently always answers with "1". The code can be found here : PASTEBIN. Please follow the link and try to solve this problem, I really need this done. Thank you very much whoever got some time to read this post.
EDIT
code:
<?php
require("simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php");
$input = get_data('https://appleid.apple.com/account');
$html = new simple_html_dom();
$html->load($input);
//echo $input;
$table = array();
foreach($html->find('input') as $inn)
{
$val = "";
try
{
$val = $inn->getAttribute('value');
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
$val = "";
}
//echo $inn->getAttribute('name') . $val . "\n";
if($inn->getAttribute('name') != "" && $inn->getAttribute('name') != "account.name")
{
$table[$inn->getAttribute("name")] = $val;
}
if($inn->getAttribute('name') == "account.name")
{
$table[$inn->getAttribute("name")] = "naclo3samuel#gmail.com";
}
}
$NIX = http_build_query($table);
//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
$ch = curl_init();
$hs = get_headers("https://appleid.apple.com/account", 0);
$headers = $hs;
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, "https://appleid.apple.com/account/");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, count($NIX));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $NIX);
//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;
//close connection
curl_close($ch);
/* gets the data from a URL */
function get_data($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5000;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
?>

Answer 1

One of the problems is right here: get_headers("https://appleid.apple.com/account", 0);
This will return something like:
[0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[1] => Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 12:28:13 GMT
[2] => Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux)
[3] => Last-Modified: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:11:55 GMT
[4] => ETag: "3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b"
[5] => Accept-Ranges: bytes
[6] => Content-Length: 438
[7] => Connection: close
[8] => Content-Type: text/html
What is cURL supposed to do with that? This is not in a format acceptable by CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER and neither headers a Server would expect from a Client request.
I suppose you are trying to stablish Cookie session. I recommend you do all that without use of get_headers() or putting your finger in the headers at all.
Enable cURL's Cookie support by setting the options CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR and CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, make a call to https://appleid.apple.com/account to initialize your Cookies, and then do the rest.
Example:
$cookies = tmpfile();
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://appleid.apple.com/account/",
CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR => $cookies,
CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE => $cookies,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HEADER => true
]);
curl_exec();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $NIX
]);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$hsize = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);
$headers = explode("\r\n", substr($result, 0, $hsize));
$result = substr($result, $hsize);