How to let Curl use same cookie as the browser from PHP

Question

I have a PHP script that does an HTTP request on behalf of the browser and the outputs the response to the browser. Problem is when I click the links from the browser on thi

Answer 1

From curl_setopt:

By default, libcurl always stores and loads all cookies, independent if they are session cookies or not.

However you may need to set cookies directly, which can be done using:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, 'foo=bar');

Which is the same as the Set-Cookie HTTP header. Check you're not using curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, true) as this will make libcurl ignore some cookies.