On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 14:51, Richard Miller wrote:
> I am trying to write a PHP app that will download content from the Wall 
> Street Journal online (wsj.com) and make it available as RSS.  They 
> themselves don't offer RSS news feeds and I couldn't find a feed for 
> them anywhere.
> 
> The problem, however, is that their home page (wsj.com) redirects 
> itself to other pages for authenticating and then redirects back to the 
> home page (http://online.wsj.com/home/us).  I also need to send a 
> cookie to authenticate.
> 
> I can do all of this with curl:
> 
> curl -L -O -b "WSJIE_LOGIN=blahblahblah" http://online.wsj.com/home/us
> 
> The -b tag allows the cookie and the -L tag follows redirects.
> 
> However, I would like to do this in PHP.  It seems like using PHP's 
> curl would be inefficient.  Can I send a cookie and use fopen()?

How about http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php?

Michael


> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
> 
> 
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