That form also has a submit button with a value. You might want to
try posting that as well:

     -d Button=Search

If the post action page has other functions, it may be using the
Button value to determine what to do. I know I've done that with a
few forms of my own... :)

Daniel - would the cookies from the first file be merged with any that
come in after the second invocation, and then all of them subsequently
be stored in the second file??

Ralph Mitchell

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:23:34 +0100 (CET), Daniel Stenberg
<daniel-curl_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Sagar Saibi wrote:
>
> > command used : curl -L -sb cookie -sc cookie1
>
> The options are -s, -b and -c. Using -s a second time only disables it. Thus
> your -s options here have no effect.
>
> > I have a post parameter to be passed to this page namely case id :
> > 1PC000052403 and i want to capture the resultant page.
>
> And when you POST this with your browser, it sends nothing but that single id?
>
> > Error I get : An error has occured. Please exit <javascript:window.close()>
> > this page and try again
> > What could be the root cause and the solution for this ?
>
> The server considers something in your post to be wrong and thus tries to
> provide a helpful error message to you. We can't know what detail. A POST
> field? A cookie? A HTTP header being in the wrong order? It can be anything
> the server program's author has decided.
>
> The solution? Mimic a browser more closely. Run a manual post with
> LiveHTTPHeaders and then make sure you run curl with command lines that
> provide as similar requests as possible.
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- http://curl.haxx.se -- http://daniel.haxx.se
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>
Received on 2004-11-22