Daniel,

thanks a lot for the notice - and everything else!

I'm very new to cURL and don't have enough time available to explore it
thoroughly, so I apologize in advance if this doesn't make sense or has
been debated and resolved already...

I'm having problems using cURL (Windoze98/cURL 7.7.3) to fetch data
from a secure site using https and cookies, which causes cURL to enter
an infinite loop while trying to access a specific page (relocation
from previous page accessed). I've read that a similar problem has been
identified recently and apparently solved, so I'm wondering if the fix
will make it to this next release.

More details follow below if needed.

Thanks a lot in advance -
  PierreZ.

<< MORE DETAILS >>

Here's the command lines I'm using (actual URL modified):

curl -A "Mozilla/4.75 [fr] (Win98; U)" -b empty.txt -L -D
Server_Headers1.txt -o Server_login.htm
https://secure.server.com:43/folder/website.shtml

curl -A "Mozilla/4.75 [fr] (Win98; U)" -v -L -b Server_Headers1.txt -D
Server_Headers2.txt -d "ID=abc123&PWD=12345&Login=Login" -o
MyAccount.htm https://secure.server.com/folder/website/Login

This seems to work fine in that it does pass the login (since I see it
getting to the next page: /MainMenu) but then it enters an endless loop
and is never able to actually fetch the contents of the MainMenu page.

What I see in the MSDOS window during execution (this gets repeated
several times) looks like:
....
Follows location to: new URL:
'https://secure.server.com/folder/website/MainMenu'
* DISABLES POST
* Re-using existing connection! (#0)
* Connected to https://secure.server.com/folder/website/MainMenu
etc...

Contents of Server_Headers2.txt:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Netscape-Enterprise/3.6
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:43:25 GMT
Content-type: text/html
Content-length: 3531

This block gets repeated several times (50?) until it finally stops.

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Received on 2001-06-05