Yes indeed ( I am also fairly new to unix, but even I should have seen that).
Thanks anyway and I shall now go and put on my sack cloth and ashes.

Cheers,
Chris

>>On Tue, 16 May 2000, Chris Furlong 56718 Comm Quay, 6th floor wrote:
>>
>>> 'curl -u user:password -x myproxy:3128 -v
>>> https://my.site.com:81/cgi-bin/GetId.cgi?cmd=get_id&uid=111111&uip=1.
1.1.1'
>>
>>Hint: the letter & is a special letter to any unix shell. It tells the shell
>>to run the program in the background. Try enclosing the entire URL within
>>quotes (double or single ones).
>>
>>> It connects via the proxy OK and retrieves the servers certificate, but
>>> then it fails on the GET and appears to not recognise anything after
>>> 'cmd=get_id'.
>>
>>Exactly, that's because the &-letter and everything to the right of it is cut
>>off by the shell. Curl never gets that data.
>>
>>--
>> Daniel Stenberg - http://www.contactor.se/~dast - +46-705-44 31 77
>> ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol
Received on 2000-05-16