Login to remote site with username & password

xxtravel · Sep 24, 2004

hi,

i am trying to write a simple script to access a website where we can send SMS to our country mobile numbers.

at first we have to login to their website using a username & password. After login, we can enter a mobile number and a message and the message arrives at the phone.

i am trying to write a Email to SMS script using this website and now i am having problem accesing this website from my script.

can anyone help to to go through this.

OK, if i put the below URL in my browser, i get automaticaly login to the site.

Code:

[URL unfurl="true"]http://websms.dhimobile.com.mv/cgi-bin/websms/index.pl?username=$username&password=$password[/URL]

after few secons, if i put the below URL in the same browser i receive SMS to my mobile.

Code:

[URL unfurl="true"]http://websms.dhimobile.com.mv/cgi-bin/websms/send_message.pl?mobilenumber=$mobilenumber&message=$message[/URL]

but all this when i do it my self by hand, but i want this to be handle by the script.

pls. help me.

chao, xtravel

MJB3K · Sep 24, 2004

you need to post the information from a form

Code:

<form action="[URL unfurl="true"]http://websms.dhimobile.com.mv/cgi-bin/websms/index.pl"[/URL] action="get">
<input type="text" name="username"><br>
<input type="password" name="password"><br>
<input type"text" name="mobilenumber"><br>
<textarea name="message" cols="20" rows="5"></textarea>

should output the desired result if you combine your 2 scripts together!

Regards,

Martin

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xxtravel · Sep 24, 2004

this way, its not working, i need to run it throught php script, and i think this website is using cookies

My Site:

http://www.maldivescards.com

MJB3K · Sep 25, 2004

just change get to post

and on a different page use:

$_POST['fieldname'];

Regards,

Martin

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shadedecho · Sep 25, 2004

I think it would be better for your PHP script to POST to that other SMS url rather than GET, because of trying to send the message over a URL (when it includes a password)... so the following is an example of that... though the PHP call to fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.1\n"); could easily be changed to use a GET method, while leaving the mypage.html post'ing to your php function.

NOTE: the http_post() php method I include here is not original to me, I saw it in some forum years ago, but I don't know who to give credit to.

mypage.html:

Code:

<html>
<form method="POST" action="sendmsg.php">

<input name="username"><br>
<input name="password" type="password"><br>
<input name="mobilenumber"><br>
<textarea name="message" cols=20 rows=10></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send Message">

</form>
</html>

sendmsg.php:

Code:

<?php

function http_post($host, $path, $payload, $referer = '') {
  // open HTTP connection
  $fp = fsockopen($host,80);
  if ($fp) {
    // send request's header information
    fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.1\n");
    fputs($fp, "Host: $host\n");
    if (!empty($referer)) {
      fputs($fp, "Referer: $referer\n");
    }
    fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-[URL unfurl="true"]www-form-urlencoded\n");[/URL]
    fputs($fp, "Content-length: ".strlen($payload)."\n");
    fputs($fp, "Connection: close\n\n");
    // send request's payload
    fputs($fp, "$payload\n");
    // recieve request's response
    while (!feof($fp)) {
      $result .= fgets($fp, 128);
    }
    // close HTTP connection
    fclose($fp);
    // return result
    return $result;
  } 
  else {
    // return failure flag
    return false;
  }
}

$username = $_POST["username"];
$password = $_POST["password"];
$mobilenumber = $_POST["mobilenumber"];
$message = $_POST["message"];

if (!http_post("websms.dhimobile.com.mv","/cgi-bin/websms/index.pl","username=$username&password=$password")) {
  echo "Oops, couldn't login.";
}
elseif (!http_post("websms.dhimobile.com.mv","/cgi-bin/websms/send_message.pl","mobilenumber=$mobilenumber&message=$message")) {
  echo "Oops, the message couldn't be sent.";
}
else echo "Thank you, your message was sent!";

?>

ericbrunson · Sep 25, 2004

I bet they're using sessions and a cookie. You need to get the cookie when it gives it and present it back to the server when you send the message.

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