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RE: Authenticating via https form

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:08:35 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Mark Eyman wrote:

> As suggested, I left only
>
> curl -d "LoginID=xxxxxx&Pwd=yyyyy"
>
> and substituted all four special characters with their hex ascii codes. The
> response didn't change. I've got back the same original page as before. I'm
> dealing with an asp page in this case. Does this make any difference for
> curl?

No. curl does HTTP, and it makes no difference what the other end is.

I'd suggest you use one of those tools to figure out what your browser does
when you attempt this, then you try repeat that with curl.

See this page for some tool ideas: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/relatedtools.html

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Received on 2005-02-14