PHP cURL CURLOPT_FILE is empty after curl_exec()
curl, download, php, wget
Solution
Add this option
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt');
Problem
I am working on a script for downloading and scanning particular webpage elements I am trying to download this example page with PHP cURL: http://www.jetbull.com/Deposit However, every time I attempt the curl_exec() the output file is empty. Would anyone know why this is or be able to lead me on the path to fixing this? I am easily able to use pretty much any other URL in this function and this won't happen. ``` function download_page($url, $out_file = "body.txt") { $fp = fopen($out_file, "w"); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp); curl_exec($ch); fclose($fp); $details = curl_getinfo($ch); curl_close($ch); return $details; } $url = "http://www.jetbull.com/Deposit"; download_page($url); ``` I am running PHP 5.2.6 inside a nix environment. I can see clearly the page will return a 307, though I am unsure as to why a redirect isn't followed (if that is indeed the problem). In Firefox, this page is retrieved fine, with a reported HTTP 200. Is the server responding in some non-standard fashion that cURL isn't handling, or is cURL not following the redirect properly, else am I doing something else just plain silly? Any help at all for information on how to fix this or to lead me down the path would be very appreciated!