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Re: help to download web pages

From: Kjell Ericson <Kjell.Ericson_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:43:04 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Peter Ping wrote:

> Tried to download a web page via curl and was not successful. Viewed
> downloaded source code and found "This web page uses frames, but your
> browser doesn't support them." even I already specified that "in-frame"
> page. Could you please help me how to solve the problem?

Try to identify yourself as a browser:

 curl -A "Mozilla/3.0 (Win95; I)" http://www.framesite.net/page.html

I've used this technique sometime myself, but I also used it for hiding that
I'm curling pages (some webmaster don't like when you sniff their contents).

  // Kjell

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Received on 2003-12-17