On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:46:03PM -0700, Guirong Wang wrote:
> I am trying to log into a web page with the corect user name and password using
> the following command (on Linux):
> curl -o temp.html -d "user=username&password=\$password*\$"
> https://secure.site.com
> but failed with the following message in the temp.html file:
[...]
> HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required

This error code indicates that the site expects HTTP login credentials,
not an application-level login which is what you tried to do. Use
the -u option to set your name and password.

>>> Dan

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