On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Jonathan deWerd wrote:

> I am making a little status application that will let u see your
> accumulated score in a game (America's Army) without actually going
> onto the website. I am using curl to do this. the first thing i do is:
> curl http://login.americasarmy.com/login_ack.php -F fldUsername=(name)
> -F fldPassword=(password -c -

The form on the page http://login.americasarmy.com/login.php is not a
multipart form, and thus -F is not right for you. Use a -d post instead.

> This works great! I get the PHPSESSID cookie just fine.

... and how do you know this works great?

> but when I try to use it: curl http://login.americasarmy.com/index.php -b
> PHPSESSID=(the contents of cookie that I got above)
> -ehttp://login.americasarmy.com/login_ack.php -A Mozilla/4.0 It dosnt work .

So perhaps it didn't work that great? Also, doesn't the above use any redirect
or something so that you might need -L as well?

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