PHP CURL seems to be ignoring cookie jar/file - php

Question

I'm using this....
function cURL($url, $header=NULL, $p=NULL)
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "/tmp/TestCookies");
if ($p) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $p);
}
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if ($result) {
return $result;
} else {
return curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
}
And I'm making a call like this...
$Headers = array(
"Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*\/*;q=0.5",
"Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5",
"Accept-Charset: windows-1251,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7");
$a = $this->cURL("https://www.mysite.com/",$Headers, null);
I'd expect this to receive a cookie and write it to the file /tmp/TestCookies.
The site definitely returns Set-Cookie headers - I can see them if I dump $a, however, the file in question is never created.
In case it's a permissions issue, I created it with touch and chmod 777'd it - The file now exists but it's empty.
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The curl constants are split into
CURL_COOKIEFILE as the cookies.txt source which is read from
and CURL_COOKIEJAR as the datastore that is written back to
You do have to provide _COOKIEFILE with an empty string to enable it IIRC, but _COOKIEJAR if you want them stored. Normally set both options to the same name.