Thanks again for your response Daniel. I am having trouble getting
formfind.pl v1.5 to work; my output is different from yours. All of my
inputs say "[weird]" and not the variable names. I tried "wget
http://www5.apa.org/membership/login/login.cfm" and then ./formfind.pl <
login.cfm. It looks like a very useful utility, though.

As for UserLogin/UserPassword values, how do I find out what they should
be? I tried leaving them null and with text but it doesn't work.

One more question. One example on the web site using the command line
curl it suggested to use press=OK. But in this situation you said I
didn't need a press=Login. Is that because CURLOPT_POST is set to 1
which means it will submit the form without "press" being set?

Thank you,
Joe Glass

-----Original Message-----
From: curl-users-admin_at_lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:curl-users-admin_at_lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Daniel
Stenberg
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 12:55 PM
To: Curl Mailinglist
Subject: RE: login POST with php/libcurl

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Joseph Glass wrote:

> $id = "username";
> $pw = "password";
> $postfields = "UserLogin=$id&UserPassword=$pw&press=login";

You seem to be guessing here. Have to analyzed the <form> tag closely?

Formfind reports this on the form:

--- FORM report. Uses POST to URL "/membership/login/login.cfm"
Input: UserLogin_required (HIDDEN)
Input: UserPassword_required (HIDDEN)
Input: UserLogin (TEXT)
Input: UserPassword (PASSWORD)
Button: "Login" (SUBMIT)
--- end of FORM

So you should use a string similar to this:

 
"UserLogin_required=&UserPassword_required=&UserLogin=$id&UserPassword=$
pw"

... and you should take care to have the name and password URL-encoded.

At least, there should be no 'login' button, but the two <input> tags
without
value you need to check how they actually work.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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