Here are the headers involved:

* About to connect() to vst.tmblewdserver.com port 443 (#0)
* Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... connected
* Connected to vst.tmblewdserver.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) port 443 (#0)
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
* CAfile: C:\Curl\curl-ca-bundle.crt
  CApath: none
* SSLv2, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, CERT (11):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Request CERT (13):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, CERT (11):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* SSLv3, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSLv3, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using AES256-SHA
* Server certificate:
* subject: xxxxCN=vst.tmblewdserver.com
* start date: 2007-02-09 00:53:35 GMT
* expire date: 2009-02-09 00:53:35 GMT
* common name: vst.tmblewdserver.com (matched)
* issuer: /C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority
* SSL certificate verify ok.
* Server auth using Basic with user 'xxxxx'
> GET /adir/Test%20File.txt?P HTTP/1.1
> Authorization: Basic YzYxMzI4MzoxMHgxcnQ0bSQxMA==
> User-Agent: curl/7.16.0 (i586-pc-mingw32msvc) libcurl/7.16.0
OpenSSL/0.9.7e zl
ib/1.2.2
> Host: vst.tmblewdserver.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:33:25 GMT
< Server: SecureTransport/4.5.1
< Set-Cookie: FDX=uzu7V4TUbtxQ5BoKVPXjWA==; path=/
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
< Features: CHPWD;RTCK;STCK;ASC;DNDISP
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Virtual user xxxxx logged in.
* Connection #0 to host vst.tmblewdserver.com left intact
* Closing connection #0
* SSLv3, TLS alert, Client hello (1):

I will pass this on to their technical guys too in the hope that there
is some useful flag I am missing which enables me to grab the file
contents.

Cheers for all the help so far Daniel,

Mike
 

-----Original Message-----
From: curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se
[mailto:curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Daniel Stenberg
Sent: 13 April 2007 11:21
To: the curl tool
Subject: RE: Integration with Tumbleweed Secure Server

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Michael Coates wrote:

> I have tried it with the "ftp-alternative-to-user" option now,
> although I think it has no bearing here as it is https (I should have
> specified this before - apologies). Below is a command response
> example (using curl
> 7.16.0):

Right, then you have a totally different issue.

> response:
>
> Virtual user xxxxx logged in.

What is interesting here is the response headers that you didn't show us
(use -v!). Did it respond with a redirect? Or was it possibly a redirect
in HTML/javascript?

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