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Re: Post in a forum

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:28:12 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, lakk_esbjrn wrote:

> So as you said, I use the -F option to post this reply but.... does not
> work... and AbCd is strangely disconnected a few minutes after (10 minutes
> approximatively)
>
> /curl -b "Cookie1.txt" -F "message=Hello&post=Envoyer"
> "http://www.NameForum.org/phpBB3/posting.php?mode=reply&f=24&sid=a442603482c15280329f8356306ceb70&t=55"/

This is the wrong -F syntax, see the manual for details.

Also, you need to extract that 'sid' number (or possibly the entire POST URL)
from the HTML of your previous HTML fetch you cannot re-use one used in a
previous session.

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Received on 2008-08-24