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Re: curl and Javascript based submit form

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:55:00 -0600

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:00:29PM +0000, R B wrote:
> Thanks.
> But the file name in url http://localhost:8080/test_20090319.zip changes every
> day so I can not use plain 'curl -O http://localhost:8080/test_20090319.zip'
> command.
> Based on LiveHTTPHeader output, I enabled cookies, set referrer header and
> user-agent as below but all I get in response is the content of test.jsp .

What do you expect when you download the wrong URL? If that file changes
every day in an unpredictable fashion, then you'll have to parse the HTML
to extract that URL, then have curl download it in the fashion I mentioned.

>>> Dan

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Received on 2009-04-03