***BOGO*** RE: [PHP] CURL de-bugging: So why am I not getting the results page on the target site?

["Boyd, Todd M." <tmboyd1@xxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris [mailto:dmagick@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:42 PM
> To: ioannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PHP] CURL de-bugging: So why am I not getting the
results
> page on the target site?
> 
> ioannes wrote:
> > I didn't get any brave response on this, but given the other thread
> on
> > 'encription' I was wondering could anyone decrypt the __VIEWSTATE
> string
> > at the end of this message.  It is part of the input page whose
> results
> > page I am trying to retrieve back onto my server for further php
> work.
> > I replicated the source from that input page onto a page on my
> server,
> > and when I click the submit button it correctly goes to the target
> > results page, on the other site though, however it did not work
> without
> > the whole of the string below.  The experiment proved though that
> > without the __VIEWSTATE the results page will not return.  So I am
> just
> > wondering, as I have not been able to repeat this using curl, what
> the
> > **** is included in that string. There's a challenge for anyone with
> > whatever resources it takes.
> 
> echo base64_decode($view_state_string);
> 
> viewstate in asp.net is like sessions in php (I believe, I could be
> completely wrong :P).

Ehrm... you're not *completely* wrong. ;) I do most of my programming at
work in ASP.NET/VB.NET, and I've come to understand that the VIEWSTATE
in an ASP.NET page is more or less for retaining form values and
client-side settings. IIS/ASP.NET still uses sessions--and in much the
same way as PHP.


Todd Boyd
Web Programmer




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