curl-users
Re: Difficulties with a secure website
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:10:22 -0600
This line:
> GET /html/modPlayerLoad.asp?modMovieID=5909 HTTP/1.1
suggests you lost several variables. Have you tried putting quotes
around the url? Unix-type shells eat ampersands and sometimes do odd
things with question marks...
Ralph Mitchell
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:11:42 +0000, David Morrison
<themorrisons_at_btconnect.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a subscription to an education training site at www.lynda.com
> and would like to download the Quicktime movie files they have in
> their member section to view offline. However, they've implemented all
> the tricks in the book to discourage you from doing so such as masking
> the URLs within javascript, requiring form based authentication and
> using session based cookies.
>
> I have already successfully extracted the list of URLs I need from
> the javaScript. I've also managed to use curl to send my form based
> login credentials and save the cookies into a text file. I've cross
> checked these cookies against those in Firefox and they all look good.
>
> However, when I try and retrieve the actual page that contains the
> .mov files I always get re-directed back to the homepage, as though I
> had not authenticated properly.
>
> Here's the output with the -v command to see if it helps anyone
> troubleshoot my problem. (Note: I've changed all personal details in
> the text below). As you can see I've also tried adding user-agent and
> referer headers in case that was the problem. My cookies.txt file
> contains all the cookies created from the login form and was created
> immediately before running the command below, so they are not stale.
>
> curl --referer "https://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=92"
> -A "Mozilla/5.0" -b cookies.txt -v
> http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPlayerLoad.asp?modMovieID=5909&chap_num=29&ModID=92
>
> * About to connect() to movielibrary.lynda.com port 80
> * Connected to movielibrary.lynda.com (69.20.104.215) port 80
> > GET /html/modPlayerLoad.asp?modMovieID=5909 HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
> Host: movielibrary.lynda.com
> Pragma: no-cache
> Accept: */*
> Referer: https://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=92
> Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDCCDRDBCC=BBGIMHNZZPBGOEJERRGBLCHK;
> username=myloginid%40gmail%2Ecom; FORUM%5FID=25133;
> MM%5FEmail=myloginid%40gmail%2Ecom; OrgTypeID=0;
> FORUM%5Fname=myfirstname; FORUM%5Femail=myloginid%40gmail%2Ecom;
> MM%5FUsername=myloginid%40gmail%2Ecom; FORUM%5Fpassword=mypassword;
> UserID=%7B90555D86%2D1B5C%2D429A%2D811C%2D2FD0BB70AB06%7D;
> OrgID=%7B5CAD35EA%2D7685%2D49EE%2DB542%2D658E22F0C6B4%7D;
> MM%5FFullname=myfirstname+mylastname; UserTypeID=0; lyndaadmin=0
>
> < HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved
> < Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:59:10 GMT
> < Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
> < X-Webserver: web1
> < X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
> < Location: index.asp
> < Content-Length: 130
> < Content-Type: text/html
> < Cache-control: private
> <head><title>Object moved</title></head>
> <body><h1>Object Moved</h1>This object may be found <a
> HREF="index.asp">here</a>.</body>
> * Connection #0 to host movielibrary.lynda.com left intact
> * Closing connection #0
>
> Does anyone else have any more idea's on what the problem might be?
>
>
Received on 2005-02-16