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Re: using curl for web application

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:13:54 +0100 (MET)

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, sss wrote:

> I have run this script succesfully using telnet with :
>
> bash-2.05$ perl testcurl.pl
>
> but why when i try to run same script from web browser didn't succes.
> like =
> http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/testcurl.pl
>
> and when i made change to open http then succesfully run...
> $sysstring = "curl -s http://www.yahoo.com;

The last time I wrote a CGI script, it had to output "Content-Type:
text/html" or at least some suitable headers before the contents, and your
perl script didn't appear to do that.

But otherwise I can't say it makes any sense why it doesn't work.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2002-11-24