Dan,
I just realized the same thing as you just said, basically, you should be POSTing to the page that processes the data, but not the page that takes the data! But in any case, now I got it working, and I have to thank the tip of using LiveHttp header.
Thx
qz

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From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
To: curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 9:11:39 PM
Subject: Re: Question on submiting a POST form

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:02:42PM -0800, Q Zhu wrote:
> I tried the -d "CusipNum=3128K0G49&PoolNum=&Report=DES&TaxYear=2008" with the
> URL page that I am trying to send with curl, http://www.freddiemac.com/mbs/html
> /sd_pc_lookup.html and still I can't get it to work. Someone mentioned cookies
> and by looking at this, I have no idea how to deal with that part either...

Cookies are enabled with the -b and -c options.

Are you using http://www.freddiemac.com/mbs/html/sd_pc_lookup.html as the POST
URL? That's definitely a problem--the URL to post to should be
http://www.freddiemac.com/mbs/cgi-bin/lookup2.pl

> I apologize in advance if I am violating any rules by using an actual URL page
> here in this forum and having no clues about at least 90% of the above HTML
> content -:) I figure what's the worst it could happen since I am ready to give
> up using any command line tools to send this URL...

We prefer that since it's possible to actually test a live URL. Has anyone
pointed you to http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html yet? That goes
into the kinds of things you need to do to in this kind of application.

>>> Dan

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