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Re: Curl gets a 403 but pasting into browser gets through
From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:35:31 -0600
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:35:31 -0600
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:03:48AM -0500, Bent Franklin wrote:
> http://www.example.com/search?foo=bar&bazz=quux
>
> A curl directly to the final URL gets a 403. Yet I can paste the same
> URL into a fresh browser (with cookies from the site having been
> previously deleted) and get the right page.
The site could be using browser detection. Try setting curl's -A option
to something that looks like a browser.
> How can I find out what the button does?
The code has to be referred to in the page. If it's not embedded in the HTML,
it must be loaded from a URL.
>>> Dan
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