If an intermediate page flashes up momentarily, that sounds like a
meta-refresh or javascript. Curl only follows redirects via the
Location header. Anything else, you need to replicate that for
yourself. There are simply too many wierd ways to jump to another
page...

Ralph Mitchell

On 8/26/05, Eriksson, Andreas (A.E.) <aeriks44_at_volvocars.com> wrote:
>
> I'm using the curl command line interface and I have successfully gotten
> values from curl the way I want to. But I have one problem before me now
> that I can't seem to find an answer to.
> When I connect to a webapplication via Firefox and type in all the value and
> hit send button a new page quickly flashes up on the screen and redirects me
> to another page where the right information comes up.
> When I tried this with curl it stops at the redirection page and prints out
> that page. I have gone through the code that comes out of that page and what
> it does is put all the information I wrote in on the first page into a cgi
> script and out comes a new page with a new form in it with additional
> information and the server then redirects that information to yet another
> cgi script on another webpage and out comes the information I need.
> I have to go through all these steps to get the right information so my
> question is there a way to make curl follow the redirections until it
> reaches the last page and print that information?
>
> //Andreas
Received on 2005-08-26