Thanks for the suggestions. I used the -c instead of -D as:

curl -c cook.txt http://supplyweb.trw.com/supplyweb/general/default.asp

*** cook.txt ***
# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
# http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
# This file was generated by libcurl! Edit at your own risk.
supplyweb.trw.com FALSE / FALSE 0 ASPSESSIONIDSCATSRQA
AFFCLAKDHPJOEMJDFHALJPHF
***

Then, I did:

curl -v -b cook.txt -d "UserAccount=USER&AccessCode=PASSWORD&Locale=en-us&TimeZone=PST%3A-480&action-Submit=Login" http://supplyweb.trw.com/supplyweb/general/default.asp

It scrolls & the top portion looks like this: I can see that the same cookie saved in step 1 was sent.

* About to connect() to supplyweb.trw.com:80
* Connected to supplyweb.trw.com (65.77.58.24) port 80
> POST /supplyweb/general/default.asp HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.10.7 (powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.2.0) libcurl/7.10.7 zlib/1.1.4
Host: supplyweb.trw.com
Pragma: no-cache
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDSCATSRQA=AFFCLAKDHPJOEMJDFHALJPHF
Content-Length: 94
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
UserAccount=4542-134289&AccessCode=134289&Locale=en-us&TimeZone=PST%3A-480&actio
n-Submit=Login< HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
< Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
< Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:58:31 GMT
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
< Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:58:31 GMT
< Content-Length: 8606
< Content-Type: text/html; Charset=ISO-8859-1
< Cache-control: private
..
..
..
..

However, at the very bottom I see that it says:

* Connection #0 left intact
* Closing connection #0

Could this be the problem??

Thanks,
Suhas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se>
To: "Curl Mailinglist" <curl-users_at_lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: "POST" option related question using cURL.

> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Suhas Tembe wrote:
>
> > 1). I first recorded the cookies as:
> > curl -D cook.txt http://supplyweb.trw.com/supplyweb/general/default.asp
>
> We generally recommend -c to store cookies in a more failsafe way. Or more
> specificly, reading cookies saved with -c is more failsafe than cookies saved
> with -D.
>
> > 2). I then decided to use the cook.txt & post as:
> >
> > curl -b cook.txt -d
> > "UserAccount=USER&AccessCode=PASSWORD&Locale=en-us&TimeZone=PST%3A-480&action-Submit=Login"
> > http://supplyweb.trw.com/supplyweb/general/default.asp
> >
> > This doesn't seem to have worked, because I see the default.asp page being
> > scrolled.
>
> Use -v and check if that cookie you saved in step 1 was sent off.
>
> > How do I know that I am logged-in?
>
> I don't know. How do you know when you use a browser?
>
> > Am I doing something wrong?
>
> No one but you can tell. If you just act exactly as your browser does when you
> login, you should be logged in fine.
>
> > The next step I would like to do after I "log in" is do a GET using:
> > http://supplyweb.trw.com/InventoryStatus.asp?cboSupplier=SUPPLIERNUM&status=all&action-select=Query
>
> Usually that's not a problem if you've logged in and have all the cookies etc
> saved so that the site considers you OK for it.
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
>
>
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