OK, trying this

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curl -c cookies.txt -D hdump.txt -v -i -b empty
-L -x myproxy:8080 -d "xxx&password=yyy&submit=Submit" http://www.vreme.com/account/login_action.php > output.txt

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I get

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* Connected to myproxy [x.y.z.d]
> POST http://www.vreme.com/account/login_action.php HTTP/1.1

User-Agent: curl/7.9 (win32) libcurl 7.9

Host: www.vreme.com

Pragma: no-cache

Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*

Content-Length: 65

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

username=xxx&password=yyy&submit=Submit

  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr.
                                 Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed

  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 0
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 0
* Connection (#0) left alive
* Follows Location: to new URL: 'http://www.vreme.com/'
* Disables POST, goes with GET
* Re-using existing connection! (#0)
* Connected to myproxy [x.y.z.d]
> GET http://www.vreme.com/ HTTP/1.1

User-Agent: curl/7.9 (win32) libcurl 7.9

Host: www.vreme.com

Pragma: no-cache

Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*

Cookie: PHPSESSID=20eff5aa1688379145249393982c59f3

  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 0
* Connection (#0) left alive
* Closing live connection (#0)

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Contents of hdump.txt (which is the same as output.txt)

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HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 23:48:13 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.19 (Unix)
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=20eff5aa1688379145249393982c59f3; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: No-Cache
Location: /
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 0
Proxy-Connection: close
Age: 0

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Cookies.txt

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# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
# http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
# This is generated by libcurl! Edit on your own risk.

(null) FALSE (null) FALSE 0 PHPSESSID 20eff5aa1688379145249393982c59f3

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I didn't quite understand your question about incomplete headers - that's what I get when using curl as described.

And yes, it is curl 7.9 - I'll try 7.9.1 if there's Windows binary available (would it make a difference though?..)

Cheers,
Steve

>>> daniel_at_haxx.se 11/07/01 07:13pm >>>
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, STEVE STEFANOVICH wrote:

> So to get the contents page I try to use
>
> curl -b empty -L -x myproxy:8080 -d
> "username=xxx&password=yyy&submit=Submit"
> http://www.vreme.com/account/login_action.php

[output snipped out]

> like I'm being redirected somewhere but not get anything back?..

If you add a -v flag to that command line, you get to know a lot more on why
and what curl does. Append a -i as well just to get all the header info at
the same time. And if you show such an output to us, we would be able to
guess much more accurately.

I can't really tell what's happening from I've seen so far. It looks weird.

> If it can help, attached is also a headers dump (dumpy.txt, using -D)

They're incomplete. There's only one set of headers there, and that makes a
Location: to the root page, which you were following, weren't you?

> cookies dump (cookiejar.txt, -c).

Is this a curl 7.9? Upgrade to 7.9.1 and you shouldn't see those (null)
things in the cookie jar...

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