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Re: help to download web pages

From: Peter Ping <peter_ping_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 04:50:57 -0800 (PST)

Tried your suggestion and did not work either. However
I did make it successful when tried followings.
Thanks, - Peter

curl -L "http://www.myweb.com/main_frame.htm"
"http://www.myweb.com/content_frame.htm"

--- Kjell Ericson <Kjell.Ericson_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> 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