Lottery numbers API

I’m looking to grab some lottery numbers from [url]http://www.lotterypost.com/game/232[/url]

They are loaded into the document with Javascript after the page loads, so plain cURL (or equivalents) are out. I found a POST request using firebug after the page loads That looks like this:

[code]
HeadersPostPutResponseCacheHTMLJSON
Response Headersview source
Cache-Control private, max-age=0
Content-Type application/json; charset=utf-8
Server Microsoft-IIS/7.0
X-Powered-By ASP.NET
P3P CP=”IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT”
Date Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:32:56 GMT
Content-Length 327
Request Headersview source
Host www.lotterypost.com
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive 115
Connection keep-alive
X-Requested-With XMLHttpRequest
Content-Type application/json; charset=utf-8
Referer http://www.lotterypost.com/game/232
Content-Length 0
Cookie ASP.NET_SessionId=wdg3me4ufxg1pkldwqizwvex; g=a=40380.6531313657&b=40420.5784265625&c=/game/232&d=; f=a=40420.5645376736; __utma=130209170.2109681115.1283193723.1283193723.1283193723.1; __utmb=130209170.7.10.1283193723; __utmc=130209170; __utmz=130209170.1283193723.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __qca=P0-1974609426-1283193723418; l=ca
[/code]

The response came back as JSON from this request:

[code]
{“d”:[“Sun, Aug 29, 2010|3-2-5-2-4-7″,”Sat, Aug 28, 2010|4-2-5-2-1-4″,”Fri, Aug 27, 2010|2-7-2-6-1-9″,”Thu, Aug 26, 2010|5-0-1-2-4-6″,”Wed, Aug 25, 2010|2-0-3-7-0-1″,”Tue, Aug 24, 2010|6-1-2-8-6-1″,”Mon, Aug 23, 2010|6-3-9-6-0-7″,”Sun, Aug 22, 2010|3-7-1-5-7-7″,”Sat, Aug 21, 2010|3-0-8-3-7-1″,”Fri, Aug 20, 2010|3-4-7-2-4-7”]}[/code]

So I tried pulling it in to my own website using a request to the same URL that the Javascript request was made like this:

[code=php]
$header .= “POST /game.aspx/GetResults HTTP/1.0rn”;
$header .= “Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8rn”;
$header .= “Referer: http://www.lotterypost.com/game/”;
$header .= “X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequestrn”;
$header .= “Content-Length: 0rnrn”;
$fp = fsockopen (‘www.lotterypost.com’, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if(!$fp) {
echo “no dice”;
} else {
$fullstring = ”;
fputs ($fp, $header . $qstring);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$res = fgets ($fp, 1024);
$fullstring .= $res;
}
echo $fullstring;
}
[/code]

But I kept getting back an HTTP 301 redirect….is there any chance I can get this request working or did the developers make the script too secure to accept any outside connections – even when I try to fake the referer heading, etc….?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Apparently the cookie part is quite important. When I disabled cookies in the browser (and am browsing their site), I can see the request returns a 500 error. So what’s the deal with the cookie:

[code]
Cookie ASP.NET_SessionId=wdg3me4ufxg1pkldwqizwvex; g=a=40380.6531313657&b=40420.5784265625&c=/game/232&d=; f=a=40420.5645376736; __utma=130209170.2109681115.1283193723.1283193723.1283193723.1; __utmb=130209170.7.10.1283193723; __utmc=130209170; __utmz=130209170.1283193723.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __qca=P0-1974609426-1283193723418; l=ca
[/code]

I notice that every part here where I see 1283193723 it’s a unixtimestamp at the time of the request. Not sure what everything else is……think I can fake it? Anybody up for helping me?

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