On 7/31/06, Ray Hauge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 31 July 2006 17:36, John Gunther wrote:
> I'm trying to programatically retrieve a sales tax lookup page using
> file_get_contents() but the page doesn't return data unless a session id
> is first retrieved and then supplied.
>
I deal with screen-scraping a lot at work. I would suggest using cURL to
store the cookie data, and then subsequently get the data you need.
I can also recommend wget, a GNU utility. It doesn't have a PHP
interface like cURL, but it's great for standalone http GETs with
cookies and form data.
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