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Re: javascript

From: Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:49:51 -0600

On 3/22/06, Ben Madsen - Mailing List <bmadsen_at_ecbridges.com> wrote:
> Because javascript is processed on the client (the web Browser), and not
> on the server. Curl, in this case, acts as a very simple client, only
> sending and interpreting HTTP requests. It does not decode HTML or any
> other data that is recieved over the HTTP channel, but leaves that up to
> you to process. If you were to send anything "back", you'd be sending
> them to the server, which doesn't internally know about javascript.

Understood. But it looked like the original poster wanted to send a
javascript string to the server, which wouldn't require curl to know
about javascript, merely how to shovel it down the servers throat.

Ralph
Received on 2006-03-22