Jayalakshmi <jaya_at_innovatesolutions.net> wrote:
> i want to open home page of my web server using curl command line.
>
> my system is using Mozilla Firefox bowser (linux OS).
>
> i tried with following commands, but still it is opening in the
> text/html format.
>
> curl -A 'Mozilla/4.05 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.32 i586)' URL
>
> Even i donot know which version of Mozilla Firefox I am using ?

Shouldn't you be calling firefox directly? Like:

   firefox http://my.web.server

The '-A' option merely changes the user-agent string sent to the web
server; it will not launch a browser.

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