cURL Login to HTTPS site

Question

I have been trying to post login credentials to an https site using cURL and PHP with no luck. Everything works fine for unsecured sites but I can\'t get it with https. I kn

Answer 1

1. Export the certificate.
2. Upload it to where your script can see it.

3. Then add:

   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, getcwd() . "/path/to/certificateCA.crt");
   

Answer 2

I used this once to connect to a bank account, hope this helps:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, HSBC_LINK1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);

$post_data = array('post1' => 'value');

$fields_string = '';
foreach($post_data as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; } 
$fields_string = rtrim($fields_string,'&');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($post_data)); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);
$data1 = curl_exec($ch);