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Re: Can't view strange Java URL with Curl. Is it possible?

From: Ham Frulong <thechile_at_beeb.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 21:27:24 -0000

Its ok i figured that bit out. It just needed the .css file.

thanks again,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ham Frulong" <thechile_at_beeb.net>
To: <curl_at_contactor.se>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: Can't view strange Java URL with Curl. Is it possible?

> Thanks for that, it works kind of. To be honest i don't know if its a
result
> of Curl or just the sites code.
>
> When viewed vi IE the site is all properly laid out and looks ok, but when
i
> issue the command
>
> curl -L -b moo "http://www.techrepublic.com/" > test.html
>
> And i then view test.html via Internet Explorer, apart from the obvious
> images being missing etc.. its also all out of alignment??
>
> I thought that this command would have taken a clone of the code from the
> original page and saved it to test.html, therefore when viewed with IE it
> should look identical.
>
> Sadly it does not.
>
> Can anyone verify if this is a Curl thing or something else. If so can you
> let me know if it can be fixed.
>
> Thanks again,
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se>
> To: "Curl Mailinglist" <curl_at_contactor.se>
> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 7:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Can't view strange Java URL with Curl. Is it possible?
>
>
> > On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Ham Frulong wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to view/download the content of this URL
> > [snip]
> > > with the use of Curl but i can't get it to work.
> >
> > I could.
> >
> > > Does anyone know how i can view this document with CURL?
> >
> > What I did:
> >
> > curl -L -b moo "[URL]"
> >
> > -L - for following the Location: header that initial page returns
> > "-b moo" - to activate the cookie parser/enginea
> >
> > Quote the URL, as the ? and ; letters likely mean something to your
shell
> > otherwise.
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
> >
>
Received on 2001-11-04