How to extract/download content from HTTPS page?


Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

Hello to all the Members of this forum, Im Shoiab, A novice programmer in php.. for my first job I have been recently assigned a project, in which I have got to extract/download the contents of the webpage (of my clients website) from HTTPS webpage using cURL. In other words I want to extract the same exact webpage to my local host.

Let me tell you, what all I have done so far, I am able to download the web content from "www.virginholidays.co.uk" here is the link to book a resort
"http://www.virginholidays.co.uk/brochures/florida/holidays/orlando/kissimmee/champions_world_resort" when i click on BOOK THE HOLIDAY BUTTON, it takes me to "https webpage" from which im not able to download (https://www.virginholidays.co.uk/book/start)
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Im using windows XP, IE 5, php 5.2 and fiddler.

Here is my code:

$req1="GET /book/start HTTP/1.0rn";
$req1.='Accept: */*';
$req1.="rnAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Cookie: _#lc=#; 90225614_clogin=l=1259059733&v=1&e=1259062485781;

__utmc=262657675;
CoreID6=60127103647212586967853;

__utma=262657675.233062282.1258696796.1259047752.1259059734.14;
__utmz=262657675.1258696796.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)

|utmcmd=(none);
_#uid=1258696798931.315033071.3223127.1883.436744734.051;

_#srchist=11611%3A1%3A20091221055958;
_#sess=1%7C20091120062958%7C1; _#vdf=11611%7C1%7C20091221055958;

__utmb=262657675;

ASP.NET_SessionId=zpn5ftje1xxodv55f1h3yg45; cmTPSet=Y;

cookie_complete=Region%3DFlorida%26Resort%3D2018.OR;

_csoot=1259036845125;

ememberedSearch=GeographyArea=Florida&GeographyResort=329.OR&Depart

ureAirport=MAN&DepartureDate=Fri 11 Dec

2009&Duration=7&AdultPax=2&ChildPax=0&InfantPax=0&ChildAge1=&ChildA

ge2=&ChildAge3=&ChildAge4=&ChildAge5=&ChildAge6=&ChildAge7=&ChildAg

e8=&SearchType=complete; _csuid=X47174a9c82f607;

cmRS=t3=1259060790328&pi=Hotel%20Options%20-%20Atop

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1;

InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR

3.5.30729)

Host: http://www.virginholidays.co.uk
Connection: Keep-Alive
Accept-Language: en-us";

$header[0] = "Accept:

text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,application/json,";
$header[0] .=

"text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Cache-Control: public";
$header[] = "Connection: keep-alive";
$header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300";
$header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
$header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Pragma: "; // browsers keep this blank.
$cookie="#lc=#; 90225614_clogin=l=1259059733&v=1&e=1259062485781;

__utmc=262657675;

CoreID6=60127103647212586967853;

__utma=262657675.233062282.1258696796.1259047752.1259059734.14;
__utmz=262657675.1258696796.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)

|utmcmd=(none);
_#uid=1258696798931.315033071.3223127.1883.436744734.051;

_#srchist=11611%3A1%3A20091221055958;
_#sess=1%7C20091120062958%7C1; _#vdf=11611%7C1%7C20091221055958;

__utmb=262657675;
ASP.NET_SessionId=zpn5ftje1xxodv55f1h3yg45; cmTPSet=Y;

cookie_complete=Region%3DFlorida%26Resort%3D2018.OR;

_csoot=1259036845125;

RememberedSearch=GeographyArea=Florida&GeographyResort=329.OR&Depar

tureAirport=MAN&DepartureDate=Fri 11 Dec

2009&Duration=7&AdultPax=2&ChildPax=0&InfantPax=0&ChildAge1=&ChildA

ge2=&ChildAge3=&ChildAge4=&ChildAge5=&ChildAge6=&ChildAge7=&ChildAg

e8=&SearchType=complete; _csuid=X47174a9c82f607;

cmRS=t3=1259060790328&pi=Hotel%20Options%20-%20Atop";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,

CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.virginholidays.co.uk/book/start");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookie);
$response1=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response1;

$response = str_replace

("/_assets/","http://www.virginholidays.co.uk/_assets/",$response);
$response = str_replace

("/brochures/","http://www.virginholidays.co.uk/brochures/",$respon

se);
$response = str_replace

("/dynamichtag.aspx","http://www.virginholidays.co.uk/dynamichtag.a

spx",$response);
echo $response;

Could you please help me download the content of https webpage? Im not sure what is the issue? Is the cookie or session expired? Or I need to write a different code..?

Please help,
Thanks
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