So in other words, curl cannot handle this type of submit button? this is not very encouraging, for me...

But just in case someone eles has seen something like this, here're little more details relating to the submit button I am talking about:

      <FORM onsubmit=lookup() action=/process/cgi-bin/lookup2.pl method=post target=results>
........
........

<INPUT type=submit value=Submit class="goInputHome">

thx

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From: Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell_at_gmail.com>
To: the curl tool <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 6:24:29 AM
Subject: Re: Question on submiting a POST form

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Q Zhu <zhuq1_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am having some trouble figuring out how to submit to a POST form that requires one to click a "submit' button. The HTML source for the submit button part looks like this:

<INPUT type=submit value=Submit class="goInputHome">

This is not quite the same as in the curl tutorial on this subject, where their 'typical' submit button is coded in the html source like:

<INPUT name=ding value="submit">

where one could use the -d option with "ding=submit" to submit the form. But with the above type of submit button, I can't seem to figure out how to do it with the -d option because there's no 'name' tag.

In my experience, any input field with no name is discarded - it just doesn't get sent. The reason for having it would simply be to put a button on the page that triggers the submit cycle. If the server cared about the value of the submit button, there would be a name.

Ralph Mitchell

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