You were correct. I was just finding that out when I got the email. I
read the IDs from a file.
I have stripped the \n this way:

while read line
do
        textArray[c]=$(echo $line | sed "s/\n//") # store line
        c=$(expr $c + 1) # increase counter by 1
done < $FILE

It seems slow, do you suggest a faster way to strip \n?

On 9/21/07, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/21/07, Brian Hare <paroxsitic_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is the code:
> >
> > ID=${textArray[$i]}
> > curl -v -L -b cookies.txt
> > "http://www.duels.com/challenges/skirmish/$ID" > scrim.html
> >
> > This is the verbose output:
> >
> >
> > HTTP/1.1allenges/skirmish/594
> > > User-Agent: curl/7.15.5 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5
> OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
> > > Host: www.duels.com
> > > Accept: */*
> > > Cookie: phpbb2mysql_sid=fffcbc5cf2d66a87eb166f744ddf019d;
> phpbb2mysql_data=a%3A2%3A%7Bs%3A11%3A%22autologinid%22%3Bs%3A32%3A%223e76a55dc717101124a0a1cac78d80a4%22%3Bs%3A6%3A%22userid%22%3Bs%3A5%3A%2232214%22%3B%7D;
> Duels[UserId]=Q2FrZQ%3D%3D.qnXn5Gc%3D; CAKEPHP=7fjnvp2gaij0jqibcu6vkt4eu6
> > >
> > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > < Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:21:32 GMT
> > < Server: Apache/2.0.59 (CentOS)
> > < X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6
> > < P3P: CP="NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM"
> > < Content-Length: 0
> > < Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
> > * Replaced cookie CAKEPHP="7fjnvp2gaij0jqibcu6vkt4eu6" for domain
> > www.duels.com, path /, expire 0
> > < Set-Cookie: CAKEPHP=7fjnvp2gaij0jqibcu6vkt4eu6; path=/
> > < Vary: Accept-Encoding
> > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
> Current
> > Dload Upload Total Spent Left
> Speed
> > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:--
> > --:--:-- 0* Connection #0 to host www.duels.com left intact
> >
> > * Closing connection #0
> >
> >
> >
> > Notice the HTTP/1.1allenges/skirmish/594. 594 is $ID but the
> > allenges is where the error occurs. If I manually change the code to:
> >
> > curl -v -L -b cookies.txt
> > "http://www.duels.com/challenges/skirmish/594" > scrim.html
> >
> > Then it works perfectly and it displays HTTP/1.1 /challenges/skirmish/594.
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know what my problem is, and if there is a workaround to this?
>
> Humour me and try doing:
>
> echo "$ID" | od -c
>
> and see if there's a carriage return following the number. You output
> *should* have looked like this:
>
> curl -v http://localhost/hobbit
> * About to connect() to localhost port 80
> * Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
> * Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 80
> > GET /hobbit HTTP/1.1
>
> with the "HTTP/1.1" on the end of the line, instead of at the start.
> This suggests a carriage return in the $ID string...
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
Received on 2007-09-21