On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 04:19:16PM -0800, Dan Dickerson wrote:
> I have found a site that seems to be able to repel cURL, and a possible "bug"
> with cURL. (Under Win98)
>
> First the site:
> http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/CivilRegister/Search.asp
>
> I need to "mimic" entering data on this form. I tried calling curl with the
> following line:
>
> curl -d @test.txt -L -v -e ;auto -o testing.htm http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/CivilRegister/Search.asp
>
> test.txt consists of a single line:
> CaseNumber=BC197241&District=
>
> Does anyone have a clue as to what I am doing wrong?

from looking at the HTML source of the above search form, I would say
that you have to POST to ".../Validatecase.asp", not ".../Search.asp".
Maybe that works -- haven't tried it, though...

Erdmut

>
> Now for the "bug". The -v (verbose) switch in the above line does not seem to
> do anything. I thought that I followed the directions in the manual pages, but
> I may be missing something.
>
> Thanks in advance for all your help,
> Dan Dickerson

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