php / curl: delete cookie created with CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR
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php / curl: delete cookie created with CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR
Most php / curl samples recommend creating curl cookies, and I am using one to crawl the web.
Here is the script http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php#93163 and here is the relevant excerpt:
$url = str_replace( "&", "&", urldecode(trim($url)) );
$cookie = tempnam ("/tmp", "CURLCOOKIE");
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1" );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "" );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false ); # required for https urls
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10 );
$content = curl_exec( $ch );
$response = curl_getinfo( $ch );
curl_close ( $ch );
Now I noticed in /tmp 3 GB of curl cookie files created by php.
I was under the impression this is cleared automatically, is it possible to do this from php / curl?
2 Answers
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First must be unset, then $ch and then you should call @unlink command.
unset
@unlink
@Josh thank for this command: curl_close($ch)
– vuhung3990
Oct 30 '14 at 5:11
You could delete the files.
But you can only delete the files after calling curl_close($ch). Yousha Aleayoub reports in his answer that unset($ch) will also allow them to be deleted.
– Josh
Feb 27 '13 at 16:20
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I had this exact same problem, and found I couldn't unlink the files. After some experimentation, I found that curl_close($ch) had to be called before you called unlink() to delete the cookie jar file. Perhaps unset($ch) causes the curl handle to be closed as well?
– Josh
Feb 27 '13 at 16:18