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Cookies, sessions and HTTP requests

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 8:34 pm
by gfmurphy
hello,

i relatively new to php and the web, but i'm a fairly proficient C/C++ programmer. I trying to start a site for my fantasy baseball league. Right now the site is hosted by Yahoo, and I would like to be able to "harvest" certain bits of data from the Yahoo! site. I'm not very familiar with HTTP so bear with me.

I was wonderding if was possible to write a php scirpt that masks itself as a web browser so Yahoo can store it's cookie and session data correctly and allow my script access to the league, which is password protected. How difficult would this be? Can someone point me in the right direction while I read up on HTTP. :wink:

Thanks for your time...

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 8:51 pm
by m3mn0n
Wow. If you ever find a way to do that please send me an email. :D

PHP can grab pages, and act as a robot for you in variety of ways, but i've never seen it do what you are asking.

click.2.learn.more

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 10:10 pm
by hedge
I answered this question just the other day.

viewtopic.php?t=7063

Thanks

Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 11:10 am
by gfmurphy
Thanks hedge. I guess i should read up on my searching skills... :oops:

thanks again

Re: Thanks

Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 11:58 am
by hedge
gfmurphy wrote:Thanks hedge. I guess i should read up on my searching skills... :oops:

thanks again
Didn't mean to sound like I had attitude.