On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Peter Jenkins wrote:

> < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> < Server: III 100
> < Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 05:20:42 GMT
> < Expires: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 05:20:42 GMT
> < Pragma: no-store
> < Set-Cookie: SESSION_ID=1212643242.7665; path=/
> < Content-Type: text/xml

I'm quite sure this response triggers a bug we had in the 7.16.* series that
was a regression in how curl deals with some responses without size, no
connection-close and no chunked encoding.

This is fixed since long.

> Can anyone identify the source of this problem and/or suggest a solution?

The solution is (as always) to use a more recent curl version!

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