On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Mark Eyman wrote:

> curl 7.11.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) libcurl/7.11.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7e zlib/1.2.2

I realize this is the version you get pre-packaged with cygwin, just be aware
that this is getting rather old.

> <form action="uldconfirm.asp" method="post" name = "loginform">
> <input type="text" name="LoginID" size="20">
> <input type="password" name="Pwd" size="20">
> <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit">
> </form>
>
> curl -d "LoginID=xxxxxx&Pwd=yyyyy&=Submit"
> https://www.theurl.com/condev/uld.asp

The submit won't be sent like that, as it has no name. It will only be:

  "LoginID=xxxxxx&Pwd=yyyyy"

but...

> 1. My password contains some special characters: (%!). The "!" in
> particular, made bash to return an error: "bash: !: event not found". I put
> a single quote " ' " in front of the "!".

You must make sure the data you send is url-encoded. Special characters must
be converted to their %HH versions.

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