Thanks, David. You nailed it. I can't believe I missed that.

Everything works find now.

--- David Seaman <dseaman_at_luminet.net> wrote:
> James,
>
> I see that you quoted most things in your curl commands, but not the
> URLs. The last one has that "&" between the parameters, so it should
> be in quotes, too. That would explain the PlanID being dropped in
> your
> trace. I don't think "&" means anything special in Windows but in a
> Linux
> shell it will separate commands.
>
> David
>
> > Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 09:57:32 -0800 (PST)
>
> > Hi. I'm using curl 7.10.2 on a Windows machine and have written a
> > script in Perl that uses "system" calls to curl to download my 401k
> > data. The script works fine on the Windows machine. But, when I
> run
> > the script on my Linux box, it is apparently corrupting the data
> sent
> > to the server. The web server returns the following error as shown
> at
> > the end of this e-mail.
>
> > What I don't understand is why it works on the Windows machine and
> not
> > the Linux machine. (By the way, I'm using curl 7.10.7 on the Linux
> > box.) I'm certain this is not a perl problem.
>
> > The resultant system calls from perl to curl are:
>
> > curl -b BenefitAccessCookie.txt -c BenefitAccessCookie.txt -o
> > outfile.html -L -d "username=namehidden&password=hiddenpassword"
> > https://benefits.smithbarney.com/cgi-bin/slogin/login.cgi
>
> > curl -b bisys-plans.txt -c bisys-plans.txt -o outfile.html -L -d
> > "BirthDate=01/01/1975&MYACTION=Submit"
> >
>
https://www.bisys-plans.com/smithbarney/index2.cfm?SSN=555555555&PlanID=009999
>
> > curl -b bisys-plans.txt -c bisys-plans.txt -o
> 401K_Account_Summary.html
> > -L https://www.bisys-plans.com/smithbarney/html/account_adv.cfm
>
>
>
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