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Re: Curl works in command-line but not on web...

From: Kevin Carothers <kevindotcar_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:39:14 -0700

On 10/13/06, Doug McNutt <douglist_at_macnauchtan.com> wrote:
>
> At 12:40 +0200 10/13/06, Rune Fjellheim wrote:
> >Forgot to say that that was as a result of trying to curl <
> http://www.google.dk>www.google.dk in the curl test.php described
> previously.
>
> Some time ago I attempted to make a case sensitive search using Google by
> using curl to access Google. I was planning to case sensitize the results
> before displaying them.
>
> Google absolutely refused to let me in with curl. I donno the procedure it
> used but there were readable messages about obtaining a license to use
> Google that way. -A faking was a failure.
>
> I gave up.

My personal first rule of doing any project with cURL is to never give up-
it has never let me down (yet, at least)- but it can get frustrating,
because usually you are working in the dark about what it is you're trying
connecting to... but that certainly isn't cURL's fault.

KC
Received on 2006-10-14