On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, mud honey wrote:

> I can do everything up to step 5 ok. The links on the index page are of the
> form http://somesite.com/blah/openfile.asp?crypt=%escape%sequenced%stuff
>
> Works fine in browser, can't get it to in cURL. I am using
>
> curl -b cookie "url_with_url%encoded%chars"
>
> I get back a bunch of binary crap that wrecks my linux terminal. It is
> definitely not the right stuff which is plain old HTML.

That's probably not because if how you entered the URL. The URL needs to be
"URL escaped" - which means %-encoding of certain letters.

If you don't get the same content with curl as with your browser, it is
usually rather a sign of the site detecting the user-agent and providing
different contents based on that. Like different user-agent, referer, cookies
or similar.

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