Re: [PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Anderson
> It should work. You said sometimes. What are the times it doesn't work? I have a script to grab various info from web pages. Insert a web page address and it outputs the results. It's useful for different things. But some web pages when I cut and paste the URLs don't work. Like when I sear

Re: [PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Analysis & Solutions
Hey Dan: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:12:45PM -0400, Dan Anderson wrote: > > But some web pages when I cut and paste the URLs don't work. Like when > I search for something on Ebay. Could this be because of cookies? That's a good guess! Yet further proof that cookies suck, except the ones made

Re: [PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Analysis & Solutions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The difficulty with cookies is when a site doesn't work without > them. Right, which is an example of developers that suck, not the technology. By that logic, you would think that PHP sucks, because there are plenty of sucky PHP applications.

Re: [PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Babineau
Yeah, I believe on Apache/Linux, it needs to be compiled in, and on windows there is just some configuration and file moving to do. cURL will do what you need it to, there is even code on the PHP site for making the POST happen. Matt On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 20:27, Dan Anderson wrote: > Doesn't thi

Re: [PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Anderson
Doesn't this have to be precompiled in? -Dan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Analysis & Solutions
Hey Chris: On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 08:44:40AM -0700, Chris Shiflett wrote: > --- Analysis & Solutions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The difficulty with cookies is when a site doesn't work without > > them. > > Right, which is an example of developers that suck, not the technology. You're right.

Re: [PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Migurski
>> But some web pages when I cut and paste the URLs don't work. Like when >> I search for something on Ebay. Could this be because of cookies? > >That's a good guess! Yet further proof that cookies suck, except the >ones made with flour, shortening and sugar, of course. Huh? seems like further

Re: [PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Analysis & Solutions
Hey Dan: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:13:32PM -0400, Dan Anderson wrote: > I have noticed that sometimes I cannot fopen($web_address,'r') or use > any similar files if the web address contains a form get in it. (i.e. > ends in a ?var1=xxx&var2=xxx...). It should work. You said sometimes. What ar

[PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Anderson
I have noticed that sometimes I cannot fopen($web_address,'r') or use any similar files if the web address contains a form get in it. (i.e. ends in a ?var1=xxx&var2=xxx...). I was wondering if there is any way to spoof a get request to a web address? I looked at fsockopen and think I need to loo

Re: [PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Babineau
Take a look at cURL: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 20:13, Dan Anderson wrote: > I have noticed that sometimes I cannot fopen($web_address,'r') or use > any similar files if the web address contains a form get in it. (i.e. > ends in a ?var1=xxx&var2=xxx...). I wa

Re: [PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Adam i Agnieszka Gasiorowski FNORD
Analysis & Solutions wrote: > > By that logic, you would think that PHP sucks, because there are plenty of > > sucky PHP applications. :-) > > I've had folks say things along these lines. Considering the number of > PHP related vulnerabilities showing up in Bugtraq/Security Focus > newsletter,

Re: [PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Analysis & Solutions
Hey Mike: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:33:31PM -0700, Mike Migurski wrote: > > > >That's a good guess! Yet further proof that cookies suck, except the > >ones made with flour, shortening and sugar, of course. > > Huh? seems like further proof that cookies are working as intended: > serving up indi

Re: [PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Analysis & Solutions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's a good guess! Yet further proof that cookies suck, except > the ones made with flour, shortening and sugar, of course. That's a pretty harsh description of one of Netscape's greatest contributions to the Web (the other being SSL). With

Re: [PHP] how do I spoof a get request

2003-08-14 Thread Analysis & Solutions
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 08:17:14AM -0700, Chris Shiflett wrote: > > why do sites such as Google, Amazon, TicketMaster, Yahoo!, and eBay use > them? The difficulty with cookies is when a site doesn't work without them. Fortunately, Google works fine when cookies are disabled. Amazon is a great e