It's one of those "shell punctuation" issues. In this particular
case, the shell is seeing the semicolon as a separator between two
commands, so it mentally inserts a newline at that point in the
command line. After executing the curl command, it goes on to set a
shell variable:

   /usr/bin/curl www.mydomain.com/jsp_application
   jesessionid=123123

Quoting the url make the shell ignore the semicolon.

These things regularly bite me... :)

Ralph Mitchell

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:04:58 +0100, akede <alex.kempkens_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Daniel,
>
> it's a wired thing - but I found it.
>
> The problem is indeet the jsession var.
>
> When you do a get to a page the session is additionally added to the url like
>
> www.mydomain.com/jsp_application;jesessionid=123123
>
> within the win32 distribution this is no problem, anything works well.
> Under Linux it seems that the system has a problem with the semicolon
> >;< and with that removes the jsessionid information from the URL.
>
> After I added quotation marks >"< around the the URL like
>
> /usr/bin/curl
> "www.mydomain.com/jsp_application;jesessionid=123123"
>
> everthing worked fine on both systems.
>
> So know you are the expert to know why this is the way ;-).
>
> Anyhow thank's for the lib it is working excellent
>
> Alex
>
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:22:18 +0100 (CET), Daniel Stenberg
> <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, akede wrote:
> >
> > > When I do it with the Win32 version the request is what I expect. On Linux
> > > the request says that the J2EE session was time outed.
> >
> > So the requests are identical but the server responses differ?
> >
> > Then no, I don't understand why the server does that. It seems to me you
> > should focus on getting some answers from the ones who provide the
> > server-side.
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Stenberg -- http://curl.haxx.se -- http://daniel.haxx.se
> > Dedicated custom curl help for hire: http://haxx.se/curl.html
> >
>
Received on 2005-02-15