On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Yanhui Liu wrote:

> I am trying to access stock quote page on msn.com site using cURL, however
> I could not get it to work. Could you help me out? I am using curl 7.9.4
> (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl 7.9.4 (OpenSSL 0.9.6) on Redhat Linux 7.1.

7.9.4 has a SSL read bug that will make it unreliable for SSL downloads. You
should get a 7.9.5 pre-release instead, as it will work better.

It would help a lot if you first of all upgraded and retried this, then come
back if it still doesn't work.

I would also appreciate if you would be able to cut out a few issues at a
time and ask specificly about them. It is very hard, and breath-taking to
only parse through such a huge mail with many complex command lines involved.

> 1. Is it possible for curl to use Netscape's cookie? So we can get to the
> client state using Netscape as a tool.

Yes, curl can read Netscape's cookies. Use -b for reading and -c can even
write them back in Netscape format.

> 2. It would be terrific if cURL had a recording function with simple GUI
> browser, so you can use the GUI to access the page and curl records all
> necessary info to get there. It will save a lot of switches and flatten the
> learning curve to use cURL.

I agree. Will you write one? ;-)

-- 
    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/