https, Jquery, PHP, Curl and document.cookie - php

Question

First off what I am trying to do:
I am trying to access a login page so that I can log in. The site is Https and requires cookies to be set so I am using jquery to run a PHP + Curl to get that page for me and store the cookies. Well I have been able to get the cookies but I keep getting a popup that Cookies are not set. So I looked at it a lot more and found that javascript does an initial check to see cookies are enabled:
function initLogin(){
// check if cookie is enabled so applications can run
if (document.cookie == "") {
alert("Cookies are disabled. Cannot access mid-tier with this setting.\nPlease configure your browser to accept cookies.");
return;
}
....Other Code...
}
I have looked through just about every post on this forum and tried a crap load of different code but no luck. So the question is how to get past this point? My understading is: Jquery calls the php script on the proxy/server and calls curl to get me the webpage. Curl will then save the cookies for later use but how do you use them. I thought just by setting them in a cookie file would be sufficient but I guess I was wrong. So I tired just setting them to CURLOPT_COOKIE but I dont know if this is correct.
Here is a copy of the code that I am running:
function getpage(){
$fullurl = "https://url/arsys/shared/login.jsp?/arsys/home";
$ch = curl_init ();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $fullurl);
$output = curl_exec ($ch);
preg_match_all('|Set-Cookie: (.*);|U', $output, $results);
$newcookies = implode(';', $results[1]);
echo "<br>COOKIES:" . $newcookies;
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $newcookies);
echo curl_error($ch) . " " . $output;
curl_close($ch);
}
Output from above code:
COOKIES:JSESSIONID=B4830242479D3DFD3235D17EE6A4DEB8;q=""HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=B4830242479D3DFD3235D17EE6A4DEB8; Path=/arsys; Secure Set-Cookie: q=""; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:10 GMT; Path=/ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:57:17 GMT Content-Length: 35657
I also tried:
function getpage(){
$ckfile = "cookies/cookie.txt";
$fullurl = "https://url/arsys/shared/login.jsp?/arsys/home";
$ch = curl_init ();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $ckfile);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $ckfile);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $fullurl);
$output = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}
The cookies get saved in the correct file but still get the same message.
I tried the code on google and it works fine its the javascript that is stopping me..

Answer 1

You must store the cookies in the browser cookies (after storing it in separated file) after getting it from curl by using PHP setcookie to be able to use it via JavaScript.
JavaScript side: After setting cookies using PHP it's better to use jQuery.cookies.js
$.cookies.get()
$.cookies.filter()
$.cookies.set()
$.cookies.del()
$.cookies.test()
$.cookies.setOptions()