"Jeff K.V. Bhavnanie" wrote:

> I tried that URL using
>
> curl -o filename.html
> http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&enc=iso88591&text=yes&kl=XX&q=silly+search&act=search
>
> it just goes to the first page but doesn't post/send the request to the av
> engine.

That URL contains a lot of funny characters. In case you're using some kind
of unix, all the &-letters have a special meaning to the shell and I bet
other OSes have problems with that or other letters as well.

Inclosing the URL within single quotes (') is probably a wise idea.

If that doesn't work, a good bug report would include curl version, OS name
and version and possibly also a piece of a 'curl -v' output...

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