On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
>
> just so I'm sure I understand; you think I'm encoding the URL correctly,
but there is another factor such as user-agent, cookies etc that may be
causing the issue?

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Received on 2008-07-10