On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, WILSON, Nick wrote:

> I can get a different response back from this server that no longer keeps
> the Connection: Keep-alive there, using curl command,

> curl -v -i -H "Connection: close" -A "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01;
> Windows NT 5.0)" http://www.emailcash.com.au

Well, that indicates that the server tries to behave differently depending on
your "browser".

> but still no body in the http message ?

So, what did the headers say?

> Is there anything I'm missing ? a host or Referrer perhaps ?

Curl automatically uses the headers a valid HTTP request should have. I'd
guess that page has a Location: header to someplace else.

> Is it possible that this site has decided that if you don't have the
> ability to keep a persistent connection then stuff you, we are not going
> to let you view our site ?

It is possible but hardly likely.

> And no I'm not doing anything dumb to try and get free cash, it's just
> that this site couldn't be fetched from using php with curl and I was
> wondering why ...

The headers you receive probably explains it all...

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