PHP：如何通过单击链接发送带有REST API调用的cookie？

Question

I'm new to the REST APIs style of web development. I have to send 2 cookies along with 1 REST API. How do I send them together by clicking on a link?

For example, if an user clicks on the link, it is supposed to make the REST API call and send the cookie along with it. I know how to do it in the cURL but I am confused as to how I can trigger that via a link. Ideally, the user should be able to download a zip file by clicking the link. The link should call the REST API and send 2 cookies over to get the zip file. I am able to get the raw code of the zip file using the following code but is not able to achieve that by clicking on the link.

    $getResultsDetails = curl_init();
    $getResults_service_url = '<URL of the REST API call>';
    curl_setopt($getResultsDetails,CURLOPT_URL,$getResults_service_url);
    curl_setopt($getResultsDetails,CURLOPT_COOKIE,"LWSSO_COOKIE_KEY=".$LWSSO_COOKIE_KEY.";QCSession=".$QCSession);
        curl_setopt($getResultsDetails, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); //get response
        $getResults_service_url_response = curl_exec($getResultsDetails);
        curl_setopt($getResultsDetails, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        if ($getResults_service_url_response === false) {
            $info = curl_getinfo($getResultsDetails);
            curl_close($getResultsDetails);
            die('error occured during curl exec. Additional info: ' . var_export($info));
        }
        curl_close($getResultsDetails);

Any ideas how I can achieve that?

Answer 1

This is mostly a duplicate of this but with the added 'how do I?' part. So, heres the bit to add to the answer of that question.

just use a link to direct your user to the php script making the call.

you can do this in 2 ways:

1.

<a href="yourCurlScript.php">click me</a>

read this answer for details on how to do the cookie part.

or

2. use an ajax call using jquery:

from jquery docs

$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: "path/to/yourCurlScript.php",
  data: data,
  success: success,
  dataType: dataType
});

same script is called, so process cookies in the same way.

for the best user experience I would probably opt for number 2. I dont know what it is that youre planning on retrieving from the API, but you can pipe it into a file using either.