Logging In With CURL and PHP

July 7th, 2007

This is an example of how you can use CURL to “log in” and retrieve some protected info. I’ve showed the somewhat extreme case where you need to maintain cookies, spoof HTTP referer and use SSL. The example page used here is ClickBank – one of the largest digital product retailers. I’ve tried to comment […]

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Squidoo MDK Problems

July 6th, 2007

No response from Squidoo about my countdown module yet, so I’m going to write about some problems I encoutered with the Module Development Kit. This is going to be technical and Squidoo-specific, so beware. A bit of background : Squidoo offers a SDK for module development. This SDK (or MDK as it’s called) comes with […]

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A Countdown Module for Squidoo?

July 4th, 2007

Recently I decided to take a look at Squidoo and almost immediately I noticed they offered a Module Development Kit. After checking out the list of “Most Wanted” modules it seems a countdown module is a fairly popular idea and should be easy enough to do. A countdown module would basically “count down” to a […]

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