Worked like a charm. Thanks !

Bruce

> > > I just downloaded curl v7.9.5 for vms and am having some
> > trouble with
> > > cookies and the "-D" option. Curl can't seem to create the cookie.
> >
> > -D stores headers to the given file. Are you saying that you
> > don't get a file
> > created when you use -D?
> >
> > > I've tried creating the file in advance and giving it world write
> > > permission to no avail. I'm running the following command
> > on OpenVMS
> > > V7.2-1:
> >
> > It might have to do with something VMS specific. I'm not very
> > good at those
> > details. VMS is a bit different.
> >
> > Nico, any ideas?
>
> Yep, VMS C runtime libary has the anoying habit of lowercasing anything
> on the commandline....
>
> >
> > > curl -L -D cookies.txt -d sysadmin_at_infoave.net -d action=login
> > > https://www.site.com
> > >
>
> Therefore this is read as: curl -l -d cookies.txt -d
sysadmin_at_infoave.net -d
> action=login....
>
>
> There is a rescue though (This is documented with the CC compiler &
> libraries... ;-)
> use " around the options like:
>
> curl "-L" "-D" cookies.txt -d ......
>
> or use the long options -- variants.
>
> curl --location --dump-header cookies.txt ....., be carefull though
> VMS on VAX has a line length limit of 255 bytes using lib$spawn etc from
> commands
> VMS ALPHA has 1024, and the expanded commandline using symbols is around
980
> (1024 minus
> the parts allready used until now (line to start with)) on VAX and 2048 on
> ALPHA.
>
> I hope this helped.
>
> Regards,
> Nico Baggus
>
Received on 2002-03-25