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Re: Getting the right frame output

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:49:00 +0100 (MET)

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Marty Kuhrt wrote:

> I've been reading through the cURL documentation, and looked through the
> mailing list archives, but I haven't seen what I'm looking for. It might
> be that I'm not looking in the right place, or this problem has not been
> addressed, or I'm just not doing it right.
>
> My problem is this. When I POST data to a webserver that normally puts
> output to multiple frames, I'm not getting a consistent return from the
> server. Sometimes I'll get the output destined for one frame, sometimes
> I'll get the output that is targeted for a different frame. What I would
> like is all the output to all the frames, or at least a consistent output.
>
> Is there something I can set to say when I POST to the server "give me the
> output to all frames" or "give me the output for frame x.y.z"?

Sorry, there is nothing in the HTTP protocol that defines this. You're
talking about HTML stuff that just is beyond the control of what curl can do
anything about.

I think you need to make really sure that you do the proper post exactly as
the HTML form on the original site hints you about.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2002-12-11