That'll probably work. I've got one page I have to deal with that's
over 100Kb to download, because it contains about 1000 form
variables... Seriously. One thousand form variables.

The really stupid thing about it is that I have to post it all back
without making any changes, so that the app can do a "Hey look!
Nothing changed!" update in a database to prove the database is alive.
 I don't know offhand the total byte count sent as post variables, but
I imagine it beats yours by at least 3Kb.

Apparently the web app authors are working on making it a bit more
efficient, but I'm not holding my breath on that...

Another page I have to work with shuffles a cookie back and forth
that's about the same size as your post variables. Curl hasn't choked
on it yet... :)

Ralph

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:03:14 -0800, Mark Turrin <mlt_at_linkzone.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 18, 2004, at 12:20 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Mark Turrin wrote:
> >
> >> Is curl the right tool for working with asp and javascript?
> >
> > It depends on what you mean with "working with". curl will download
> > whatever the ASP outputs. It will not execute any javascript code.
> >
>
> The page has a very long hidden field that I'm trying to pass thru
> using curl. Here's what I have:
>
> curl -d
> "__VIEWSTATE=dDwtMTgyODkzNTY7dDw7bDxpPDE%2BOz47bDx0PDtsPGk8Nz47PjtsPHQ8c
> DxwPGTQjs%2BO2w8XGU7MjxUcmFuc3BhcmVudD47aTw4Pjs%2BPjs%2BOzs%2BOz4%2BOz4%
> 2BO2w8TG9nb25CdG47Pj5rMLGuDoJUSN61jFC9NxdhejXbpQ%3D%3D&Name=siteworks&Pa
> ssword=mark&LogonBtn.x=20&LogonBtn.y=11Name=XXXX&Password=XXXXXX&LogonBt
> n.x=20&LogonBtn.y=11" http://dplwireless.com/login.aspx
>
> Do I need to pass other parameters to get this to login correctly? (I
> XXXXX out name and password for this post)
>
> Thanks,
>
> mlt
>
>
Received on 2004-11-18