Hi,

On Don 23.03.2006 19:21, Jens Bonerz wrote:
>
>What I have been basically doing until last week was sending a request
>to my webserver that called a page within phpmyadmin. in this request i
>posted all necessary get variables to initiate a database dump and have
>it sent to my computer (as an sql file).
>
>this was done using wget. today i tried it again and it failed with an
>internal server error 500.

What was changed on the webserver?!

>now, i switched to curl.exe (no ssl support) hoping that this is the
>better piece of software anyways but yet...I am still encountering the
>same issue. when i paste the request uri into firefox or ie,
>everything works fine and the browser saves the sql file doing the same
>thing from curl command line, it fails. I have put the query in
>quotes...
>
>Does anybody have a clue about this?

1.) how about to add

-A 'Mozilla/5.0 (en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Firefox/1.5.0.1'

into the curl comandline?

2.) As the Question above: What was changed on the webserver?
3.) Have you looked with LivehttpHeaders what exact was send from
Firefox?

4.) Which version of curl do you use?

Hth

Alex
Received on 2006-03-23