Although I only recently began to use curl and curl lib, I am having a
similar problem. I used curl to donload pages from findmymate.com. I think
I mentioned this problem on the curl mailing lists... When downloading, a
very strange space (" ") appeared in the html pages I downloaded. And the
spece got into my targeted links/info that I needed to parse. After
loosing some time with this problem (I couldn't extract the info), I was
able to find a way to get that info out...

But I just wanted to tell you guys that yes, it seems that curl is messing
with the received data...

and another problem I have to monetion here is....

I was doing:

$url="http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/script.pl?page="
for ($i=1;$i<430;$i++){
$nurl="$url$i";

--
get_with_curl ($nurl)
}
The problem is that curl crashed a few times (many times), during this
loop. Fortunately, I was able to see what $i was and start over from that
$i and continue. But after some pages were downloaded, the crash appeared
again... and so on until I downloaded all the pages...
> 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,
> 
-- 
Nick...
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