On Jun 11, 2013 1:30 AM, "Spencer Elliott" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ralph, > > > > I hope you do not mind me emailing you, it’s a bit random I guess, but I saw your email in a public thread related to LibCurl authentification, and I was hoping you might be able to help me. > > > > I have built an application (Win32 console) that joins an IRC server, and listens to the chat, waiting for a command. This part is working fine. > > I have included the libcurl library into the application and performed some simple examples. > > However, I want the application to log-into an admin panel for a game server, and then perform some admin functions (the game server can only be administrated from a web panel, and the ability to perform these functions in IRC instead is something the users of this game really want). > > > > My challenge is that while I am okay programming in C++, I have very little experience with cookies, http header files and libcurl. > > Would you be able to show me the correct method of logging in (and assuming I want to stay authenticated while the session is open)? I know as much that it requires POST and have tried with the following: > > > > void CurlPostTest() > > { > > CURL *curl; > > CURLcode res; > > > > > > curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL); > > > > curl = curl_easy_init(); > > if(curl) > > { > > curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, " http://208.115.205.106:8075/ServerAdmin/";); > > curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); > > curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1); > > curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "UserName=myname&Password=mypass"); > > curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie"); > > curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie"); > > > > res = curl_easy_perform(curl); > > //if(res != CURLE_OK) > > //{ > > fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n", curl_easy_strerror(res)); > > //} > > > > curl_easy_cleanup(curl); > > } > > curl_global_cleanup(); > > } > > > > However, this was largely guess work to be honest. It returns: > > > > <Title>401 Unauthorized</title><H1>401 Unauthorized</H1> > > Curl_easy_perform() failed: No error > > > > Based on the url http://208.115.205.106:8075/ServerAdmin/ would you know what the correct post fields are? That string is really what I need, I think (variablename=myname&passwordvairable=mypass). > > How do you determine what the field names are? > > > > If you felt really generous, would you mind changing the entire function to log-in properly to the above the url? If I had an example, I’m sure I could then do everything else I needed to. > > > > I appreciate this is a weird random request. However, I am hoping you remember your own struggles as a newbie and are willing to help?
I've copied this to the libcurl mailing list, because you'll get a better answer, faster. I don't use c/c++ at all, so I can't even start to help you out. Ralph Mitchell
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