When using a browser i am prompted to save a file, i say yes save the
file then it displays the html below, i go look at the file i saved and
its a tab delimited text file that i expected. The html that is returned
by curl is not the file i receive when using a browser.

Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Wed, 18 May 2005, bart wrote:
>
>> So i use a procedure in the database to build the curl line it takes
>> 4 posts to get logged in and to the point where I am requesting the
>> file I want and requires probably way to much effort
>
>
>> here is the output of --trace-ascii
>>
>> => Send header, 576 bytes (0x240)
>> 0000: POST /cgi-bin/CaseFiled-Rpt.pl?101551106276801-L_56_1-1 HTTP/1.1
>
>
>> 0000: Content-disposition: inline; filename=CaseFiledRPT.txt
>> 0000: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>> 0000: Content-Type: application/binary; name=CaseFiledRPT.txt
>
>
> ...
>
>> 0000: 3ff
>> 0005: <HR><CENTER><TABLE BORDER=1 BGCOLOR=WHITE WIDTH="400"><TR><TH CO
>> 0045: LSPAN=4><FONT SIZE=+1 COLOR=DARKRED>blah blah
>>
>> As you can see I get the html, it mentions the file but I dont get
>> the file. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> That's the file you get. It even claims application/binary and a set
> name.
>