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Re: https problem

From: Shlomit Lisser <shlomit_at_gosms.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:31:10 +0200

Actually I did
My params are:

-s -o E:\TEMP\tmp77235.crl -i -e www.mcb-ib.co.mu -A "Mozilla/4.5
(compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT)" -3 -u demo:password
https://www.mcb-ib.co.mu/ib/accinfo.nsf/OnlineBalance?Openagent

At 11:06 29/11/00 +0100, you wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Shlomit Lisser wrote:
>
> > However if you'll browse to
> > https://www.mcb-ib.co.mu/ib/accinfo.nsf/mainpage?openform
> > using IE or Netscape and click on the second link - which is
> > https://www.mcb-ib.co.mu/ib/accinfo.nsf/OnlineBalance?Openagent you'll get
> > the proper page.
>
> > Using curl with the same link URL will get me the header that I send.
> > What I wont to get is the page content of
> > https://www.mcb-ib.co.mu/ib/accinfo.nsf/OnlineBalance?Openagent
>
>When browsers see different things than curl does, it is often due to some
>kind of server-side filter/check.
>
> > Things is it worked like a charm up until a few days ago. What could have
> > happened?
>
>That is also an indicator that they've done something to the site that now
>put different requirements on you. Maybe you need cookies, maybe you need a
>browser-like user-agent, maybe you need a referer. Set everything the way
>your browser would and try if that helps.
>
> > If the pages of the site has been changed ( and it probably did) is there
> > ant solution for that?
>
>Well, the contents of the pages shouldn't alter the way the server behaves.
>
>--
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/
Received on 2000-11-29