cURL Fails To Auto Post

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Hi,

I was searching for a tutorial that teaches how cURL can auto post and came across the following code. It is supposed to fill-in WP comment form. But for some reason I see no response on the commenting section on the blog.

Why is that ?
If I run the script on my site then I see cURL fetches the page (the above link) but I see no response on the comment form.
If I run the script on my Xampp (localhost) then I see a complete white blank page. Why ?

<?php
$postfields = array();
$postfields["action"] = "submit";
$postfields["author"] = "programmer";
$postfields["email"] = "email@email.com";
$postfields["url"] = "http://www.example.com/";
$postfields["comment"] = "Testing comment 1,2,3.";
$postfields["comment_post_ID"] = "123";
$postfields["_wp_unfiltered_html_comment"] = "0d870b294b";
//Url of the form submission
$url = "https://www.atilus.com/top10internetmarketingblogs/";
$useragent = "Mozilla/5.0";
$referer = $url; 
	//Initialize CURL session
$ch = curl_init($url);
//CURL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
//We post $postfields data
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
//We define an useragent (Mozilla/5.0)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
//We define a refferer ($url)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
//We get the result page in a string
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//We exits CURL
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
//Finally, we display the result
echo $result;
?>

[administrator]

I would isolate things and see if you can track it down. That said, it seems it is failing to load the URL. So first thing to check is to see if your script it loading the URL properly.

I edited out the link to the URL you posted to dissuade spammers. 

Stef

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Stef,

 

The url is loading on my end here. It's just cURL is not posting. I see no activity in the commenting section.