curl gives 403 error?
I'm trying to set a cookie for my phpBB forums from a MediaWiki login page. Using the hook after a login to the wiki is successful, I want to run a php script that sets the cookie.
The script works when I run it independently or when I use GET , but for security reasons I want to POST to the script. For this I figured curl would be the best option.
Unfortunately, even the basic script like this:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/ForumLogin.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
Gives me a 403 Forbidden error. There's no rules in robots.txt that should interfere. What else could I try to get the script to work, or are there any other ways I could run the script from within MediaWiki?
Answer
For my specific project, the server would throw a 403 error if an error occurs, but still return data. So to get around the issue, I did this:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 0); // Fail on errors
If you disable the fail on errors, you might still get some data back. Hope that helps.