I'm using the pdfmyurl api to convert web pages to PDF. This works fine for all pages on my website, which are not in the members area. My members area requires a user to log in first.
According to the documentation (http://pdfmyurl.com/html-to-pdf-api#secure) I should be able to pass form fields so their converter can access the page. However when I try this, I still get a PDF of the login page.
My login form (http://members.mysite.com/login.php) has the following HTML:
<form class="form-horizontal" id="memberlogin" action="checkpass.php" method="post">
<div class="control-group">
<label class="control-label" for="user">Username:</label>
<div class="controls">
<input name="user" id="user" required>
</div>
</div>
<div class="control-group">
<label class="control-label" for="password">Password:</label>
<div class="controls">
<input type="password" id="password" name="password" required>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-actions">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Sign in</button>
</div>
</form>
And in the checkpass.php script I only check for the values of user and password.
I'm using the following API call:
I'm confident the password for the user is correct as I can manually log in. I'm pretty sure this is also how I should pass an array over HTTP GET.
Any ideas?
Your form page is http://members.mysite.com/login.php, but you check the login parameters at http://members.site.com/checkpass.php
I think PDFmyURL will need to pass the login parameters to http://members.site.com/checkpass.php, because that's where you check them.
Try the following API call to do this
http://pdfmyurl.com/api?license=mylicense&url=http://members.mysite.com/mypage.php&form_url=http://members.site.com/checkpass.php&form_fields[user]=username&form_fields[password]=password
Other than this you must check server logs to find problems with authentication.