Just a random thought:

Have you tried watching the form submit using something like
Firefox+LiveHTTPHeaders?? That might show you how the browser makes
it work.

Ralph Mitchell

On 6/29/05, Spam Trap <spamtrap42_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been working on this problem for a couple of weeks now, and it's
> driving me nuts.
>
> I'm using curl with perl to navigate a complex series of forms. I
> have everything working properly except the last page, which has two
> fields with the same name. One is a Input Submit named "send", value
> "send now"; the other is a hidden field named "send", value, "1804".
> I've tried using two separate -d options, and also combining the two
> fields into one with a separating comma. No luck. As far as I can
> tell, curl is sending exactly the same page that mozilla does, but I
> always get a failure with curl.
>
> Does curl have a problem when sending identically named form fields?
>
> I've talked with a developer at the site I'm trying to access. He
> says they're not deliberately running the site to prevent curl or
> similar programs from working, but (understandably) they won't support
> such a non-standard method of accessing their site and can't offer
> support.
>
> The form I'm trying to fill in looks like this: (de-html-ized, and
> stripped to the essentials)
>
> form method="POST" action="http://somewhere.com/" name="formname"
> input type="hidden" name="rsvp_email" value="email_at_somewhere.com"
> input type="hidden" name="rsvp_name" value="Newsletter"
> input type="hidden" name="pub_groups[]" value="38001"
> input type="submit"
> onClick="document.formname.send_setting.value='now';" name="send"
> value="send now"
> select name="send_month"
> option value="01" January/option
> option value="02" February/option
> (etc...)
> /select
> select name="send_day"
> option value="01" 1/option
> option value="02" 2/option
> (etc...)
> /select
> select name="send_year"
> option value="2005"2005/option
> (etc...)
> /select
> select name="send_time"
> option value="00:00:00" 12am/option
> option value="01:00:00" 1am/option
> (etc...)
> /select
> input type="checkbox" name="alert" value="1"
> input name="alert_email" type="text" size="20" value=""
> input type="submit"
> onClick="document.formname.send_setting.value='scheduled';"
> name="schedule" value="schedule it"
> input type="hidden" name="send_setting" value=""
> input type="hidden" name="num_members" value="1"
> input type="hidden" name="campaign_id" value="298000"
> input type="hidden" name="send" value="1804"
> input type="hidden" name="type" value="groups"
> /form
>
> And the curl option file looks like this:
>
> -i
> -b cookies.txt
> -c cookies.txt
> -o output.html
> -d rsvp_email=email%40somewhere.com
> -d rsvp_name=Newsletter
> -d pub_groups%5B%5D=38001
> -d send=send+now
> -d send_month=06
> -d send_day=29
> -d send_year=2005
> -d send_time=18%3A00%3A00
> -d alert_email=
> -d send_setting=now
> -d num_members=1
> -d campaign_id=298000
> -d send=1804
> -d type=groups
>
> What am I missing here? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...
>
>
Received on 2005-06-30