How to set cookie in PHP cURL request - php

Question

I'm trying to establish a connection with a real-estate listings API in Canada (CREA), and according to the documentation:
A successful Login response header includes a Set-Cookie with
X-SESSIONID value. This X-SessionID value needs to be submitted with
every request after logging in.
The service provides a sample API for setting everything up, but whenever I attempt to grab the X-SESSIONID value and set it for a subsequent request, it doesn't seem to work, and I get a 401 Unauthorized header on all subsequent requests (even though I am able to successfully grab the X-SessionID info).
Here is the code that I am using now:
<?php
$ch = curl_init('http://sample.data.crea.ca/Login.svc/Login');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_DIGEST);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'CXLHfDVrziCfvwgCuL8nUahC:mFqMsCSPdnb5WO1gpEEtDCHH');
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo '<pre>' . htmlspecialchars($xml) . '</pre>';
preg_match('|Set-Cookie: (X-SESSIONID=.*?);.*|', $xml, $match);
echo '<pre>';
print_r($match);
echo '</pre>';
$ch = curl_init('http://sample.data.crea.ca/Metadata.svc/GetMetadata?Type=METADATA-RESOURCE&Format=STANDARD-XML&ID=0');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $match[1]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo '<pre>' . htmlspecialchars($xml) . '</pre>';
Because this is a sample API available to anyone for free, you can run the code above as is to see the error I am getting.
Any advice on how to properly submit the X-SessionID value so that I can be properly authenticated and make subsequent requests would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Just do:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, '');
Now curl will take care of the cookies. You don't need to parse anything or set them manually