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Re: curl command line and login to phpbb forum

From: Oren Amsalem <oren_amsalem1_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:49:28 +0300

Topic Closed...
I made it
Thank you very much all
The sid varibale was needed to be extracted from the webpage thank you...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug McNutt" <douglist_at_macnauchtan.com>
To: "the curl tool" <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: curl command line and login to phpbb forum

> At 21:47 +0300 7/23/08, Oren Amsalem wrote:
>>i dont understand you say that i cant use curl in its command line state
>>to do what i want it to do?
>>I dont really have time to learn perl and stuff like that i using curl
>>with autoit...
>>All i want to do is to make a post.
>>For now i dont even want to get information from the page..
>>Just a forum post manager.
>
> You may well need information from the page itself in order to pass
> randomly changing security information with your POST request. Not
> everything is done with cookies and sometimes cookies are set by
> JavaScript in the page rather than being sent in HTTP headers.
>
> Another option is to experiment with the GreaseMonkey tool for Firefox. It
> allows you to muck with pages using your own JavaScript code which can get
> executed after a page loads but before its own scripts are executed. You
> can preset usernames and passwords that way and still allow Firefox to do
> all of the magic that has been applied in the HTML as downloaded.
>
> Just to show how important multiple pages can be, my brokerage was up to
> 200 separate pages that had to be downloaded, some from other sites,
> before it finished processing a password check. I just gave up. They even
> fixed some of the form submission buttons so GreaseMonkey won't work
> either.
> .
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Received on 2008-07-24