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Re: stubborn URL

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:17:10 -0700

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:34:16PM -0700, B Z wrote:
> Ok so i've used -d before, it seems pretty simple, etc.
>
> Im trying to access this page:
> http://www.vault.com/jobs/jobboard/viewjob.jsp?keyword=&postjob_num=15237331819
>
> When I use cURL command:
> curl http://www.vault.com/jobs/jobboard/viewjob.jsp -d keyword= -d
> postjob_num=15237331819
>
> I get a result that says "nothing to do". I've tried variations of that
> command using -b -c for cookies etc and -L just in case... always get the
> same result "nothing to do" and its not in an html page- which makes me
> think its a cURL response, but im really not sure where its coming from lol.
>
> I can access the page fine via firefox when i type the url in.
>
> Can anyone else get cURL to pull this page? If so- what am i missing/doing
> wrong here? thanks.

-d is for POST submissions. If you type in the first URL into a browser,
you're doing a get. Give that same URL to curl to do the same:

  curl "http://www.vault.com/jobs/jobboard/viewjob.jsp?keyword=&postjob_num=15237331819"

The quotes are needed on some shells to avoid treating ? and & specially.

>>> Dan

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