Hello,

        I'm a newbie, macos user, trying to make a script in order to download
automatically a file on a server. With an executable script. But I'm
newbie in all those things.
        So i found lynx-ssl and its trace mode to see what I send the server
each time.
It starts by a request that gives me a cookie and a redirection url and
I'm supposed to send back cookie and use redirection. Of course.

I've tryed a few way but it does not work and I'm now at the point I
mess everythings :-/

Here is the line that should work and does not

curl -D "D_Curl4Seph" -b -e -L
'http://mysite.com/DirOuone/login.php?login=123456789&pass=Mypass' -o
'SoDesiredFile
'https://mysite.com/DirOuone/Action.php?choix=2&Annee=2003&action=Excel'
unmatch ..

I was better when I used several lines :

With the following line

curl -v -D 'AQUEJEVOUDRAIS2' -b -L -e -u
"http://mysite.com/DirOuone/login.php?login=123456789&pass=Mypass"

I get the Header :
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:58:48 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) PHP/4.0.3pl1 mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.3pl1
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=f0b56becb2468ab5a6af406f602dbdf1; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0,
pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Location: https://mysite.com/indexps.php
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

But I have not been able to make the second request by a simple
curl -v -D 'AQUEJEVOUDRAIS2' -b -L -e -o
"https://mysite.com/DirOuone/action.php?choix=2&Annee=2003&action=Excel"

It's sound very good :

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:01:41 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) PHP/4.0.3pl1 mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.3pl1
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=02ec4068225ddd9d2ef3fd171709d047; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0,
pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

But it should be a "Content-Type" : Application/OctetStream (it is in
lynx trace) and the text/html says "User do not exist" wich I know is
false, I'm a regular user that can get his data via a browser.

Could you tell me how I should write that ?

With lynx it sends a request at the redirection
"https://mysite.com/indexps.php "and after the second url that makes
the server to send a file type Application/OctetsStream I need to store
on my disk. Should I do that ?

I'll try now anyway :-)

Well, it seemed to work fine but when I tried to get my file with the
line I used before server says again "User does not exist" (and still
no new file on my home)

Thanks in advance if you can help me, I'm not a professional developer
:-/

Laurent Demaret

-- 
laurent.demaretATfree.fr
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