curl-users
Re: Problem downloading file from a redirect
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 14:20:29 +0200 (CEST)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 14:20:29 +0200 (CEST)
On Mon, 9 May 2005 balt3_at_inside.net wrote:
> <meta http-equiv='Refresh' content='0;URL=home.pl'>
> If you see this, your system does not support automatic redirects. <a
> href='home.pl'>Click here to continue</a>
> </body></html>
>
> Weird, I did specify the -L option to follow redirects.
-L makes curl follow HTTP redirects, not this kind of HTML redirects.
You need to manually "follow" this, or possibly write a script that can
extract the URL and (re-)invoke curl properly.
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