Logging Into AliBaba.com programmatically - php

Question

I am trying to figure out how to login to the website https://login.alibaba.com using PHP and CURL. I am using the code below but it does not seem to be working. How would you recommend I login to this site automatically?
My current code:
<?
$cookie = "cookie.txt";
// set global curl options
$curloptions = array(
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6',
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 60,
CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR => $cookie,
CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE => $cookie,
CURLOPT_REFERER => 'http://www.alibaba.com'
);
// set userinfo
$username = 'xxxxxxxxxxx';
$password = 'xxxxxxxxxxx';
// clear cookie.txt (fresh session)
$handle = fopen($cookie, 'w');
fclose($handle);
// make a dummy request to generate a session
curl_http_request('https://login.alibaba.com', $curloptions);
// login
curl_http_request('https://login.alibaba.com',
array(
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => 'xloginPassport=' . $username . '&xloginPassword=' . $password . '&noCsrfToken=&xloginCheckToken=&rememberme=&runatm=',
CURLOPT_POST => TRUE
), $curloptions
);
//example request
echo curl_http_request('https://login.alibaba.com',
array(
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE
), $curloptions
);
function curl_http_request ($url, $moreoptions = array(), $options = array())
{
foreach ($moreoptions as $k => $v) $options[$k] = $v;
$handle = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt_array($handle, $options);
ob_start();
$buffer = curl_exec($handle);
ob_end_clean();
curl_close($handle);
return $buffer;
}
?>

Answer 1

They are using some token generation method on login, so unless you know how to generate the same, just use their web login.
Here's a typical login request looks like:
https://login.alibaba.com/xman/xlogin.js?pd=alibaba&pageFrom=standardlogin&u_token=Bf0323500b707423d50c96aae931e204b&xloginPassport=andreaswongg70&xloginPassword=10fd852ff6603865cf632b59d935e56b&dmtrack_pageid=ca1b1fe2cdcc700d4f66917813628a849a71fcca49