On Wed, 7 May 2003, Monica David wrote:

> I'm a newcomer. I want to grab a ftp location which is
> list on the third web page after went through many
> checkboxes on the first two pages, like this:
> page #1 http://myweb/db-perl/W3Browse/w3browse.pl
> page #2
> http://myweb/db-perl/W3Browse/w3query.pl/cgi-bin/search/search.pl?Coordinates=J2000&Radius=Default&displaymode=TextDisplay&Basic=on
>
> page #3 http://myweb/db-perl/W3Browse/w3hdprods.pl
>
> Does anyone can tell me how to get page #3?

You probably need to write a little script that invokes curl properly.

> If check out a file on a single web page, and a download window
> automatically pops out to save the file on local disk, how to curl this
> page and get the file?

What is a "download window" that pops up? Are you referring to the "save
file" dialog that your browser presents you? If so, then you can just use
'curl -o filename [URL]' to download that URL into a local file.

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