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Re: curl win32 commandline question

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:22:26 +0100 (MET)

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Peter meulmeester wrote:

> But I really want to add more parameters such as:
>
> F:\curl>curl -A 'Mozilla/5.0'
> http://www.aex.nl/scripts/marktinfo/OnderliggendAandeel.asp?Symbool=KPN&taal
> =nl
>
> The WinNT commandline does something with the & and says:
> The name specified is not recognized as an
> internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

You should probably escape that &-letter somehow. Like enclosing the entire
URL with quotes " or '.

> I tried using posting with the -d option such as:
>
> F:\curl>curl -A 'Mozilla/5.0' -d "Symbool=KPN"
> http://www.aex.nl/scripts/marktinfo/OnderliggendAandeel.asp
>
> and from a file with "-d @datafile". But even with just one argument it
> does not work.

Well, just making a POST instead of a GET is not always appriciated by the
receiving script/program. I would stick to GET if I were you.

> What am I missing here?

How to put quotes around the URL properly. ;-)

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/
Received on 2001-03-13