Emulating Facebook Connect Login

[harrymouni]

I'm trying to write a PHP/cURL script where you give it your facebook user/pass and it logs in with Facebook connect on a website. So I've been sifting through Charles logs and it's obviously pretty complex with all the Javascript. I'm not even sure if it's possible.

Has anyone here tried this and wanna chat?

 

[harrymouni]

Alright, turns out this was easier than expected in the end.

 

[Bayuh7]

Could you share your technique?

I'm curious as how this turned out to be so easy.....

 

[harrymouni]

i can't tell if you're actually curious or this is just gibberish to increase your post count

 

[mattseh]

Actual browsers are useful for stuff like this, as soon as a site relies on JS heavily.

 

[acidie]

Actual browsers are useful for stuff like this, as soon as a site relies on JS heavily.

I always found that emulating the JS (sniffing the connections then calling the urls directly, bypassing the javascript) to faster and less bloaty than a browser, but it takes longer to implement.