Hi
 thanx for you quick reply

 I am writing mail forwarder for mail.rediff.com
 I able to logged in and list message urls successfull but when in try to
 retrieve the url I get a page conntaing error malformed request whose
status
 is internal server errror .

 urls are as follows

 originial---->

formname=read_msg&folder=Inbox&file_name=Welcome.old&login=testdil&session_i
 d=1$1$E$Tvq1hBwyBF.PUA0L33GO90&index=1&function_name=''&SrtFld=2&SrtOrd=1

 escaped ->

http://f2mail.rediff.com/cgi-bin/folder.cgi?formname%3Dread_msg%26folder%3DI

nbox%26file_name%3DWelcome.old%26login%3Dtestdil%26session_id%3D1%241%24E%24

Tvq1hBwyBF.PUA0L33GO90%26index%3D1%26function_name%3D''%26SrtFld%3D2%26SrtOr
 d%3D1

 the error comes in an html page returend by retrieving this url

 curl version ->

 curl 7.9.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl 7.9.2 (OpenSSL 0.9.6)

Amit Hooja
System adminsitrator & Integrator
Data Infosys Ltd.
Tonk Road , Jaipur
Phone : 91-0141-702311,702312,702313
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se>
To: "Amit Hooja" <amithooja_at_dil.in>
Cc: "Curl Mailinglist" <curl_at_contactor.se>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 1:50 AM
Subject: Re: Malformed request problem

> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Amit Hooja wrote:
>
> > I am trying to retrieve a url using curl cmdline embeded in perl script
the
> > url uses session id , i am doing uri_escape on url and passing it to
curl
> > cmd .
> >
> > and getting malformed request
>
> It would make it a lot easier if you could show us more details. How does
the
> malformed request look like (using -v)? What does your original/unescaped
URL
> look like?
>
> Are you sure your "uri_escape" doesn't mangle the URL to prevent it from
> working properly?
>
> Please also include details like operating system and which curl version
> you're using.
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
>
>
Received on 2002-03-07