I was under the impression that the -L would simple try to post to the new
URL, that is not what I want.
this is how it works

1. I do a post to login script
2. the script validates my username and password
3. If authentication comes through fine the web server returns a redirect
4. the browser executes a GET on that redirect

in step 4 (with -L) curl attempts to do a POST on the redirect, hence an
error gets thrown saying this page doesn't allow POST

any ideas?

Filip

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel_at_haxx.se]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 12:28 AM
To: 'curl_at_contactor.se'
Subject: Re: redirect

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Filip Hanik wrote:

> Curl doesn't follow my redirects. It instead gets a message that the
> following url has moved to (the Url that was in the redirect)

Curl doesn't follow _any_ redirects by default.

Reading the man page could provide some ideas. A tiny tiny hint would be the
-L switch.

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