On the following page:

http://download.cnet.com/Macrium-Reflect-Free-Edition/3000-2242_4-10845728.html?part=dl-6288502&subj=dl&tag=button

the page source gave me the following link for the download button:

http://dw.com.com/redir?edId=3&siteId=4&oId=3000-2242_4-10845728&ontId=2242_4&spi=abf20204d70bae9a07c1a6598b0a2573&lop=btn&ltype=dl_dlnow&pid=11015803&mfgId=6288502&merId=6288502&pguid=q-Zp-AoPjF0AABWxUcYAAAFt&destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.cnet.com%2F3001-2242_4-10845728.html%3Fspi%3Dabf20204d70bae9a07c1a6598b0a2573%26part%3Ddl-6288502

and, when I did the following:

curl -L -m 60 -o reflect -v -#
"http://dw.com.com/redir?edId=3&siteId=4&oId=3000-2242_4-10845728&ontId=2242_4&spi=abf20204d70bae9a07c1a6598b0a2573&lop=btn&ltype=dl_dlnow&pid=11015803&mfgId=6288502&merId=6288502&pguid=q-Zp-AoPjF0AABWxUcYAAAFt&destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.cnet.com%2F3001-2242_4-10845728.html%3Fspi%3Dabf20204d70bae9a07c1a6598b0a2573%26part%3Ddl-6288502"

I got:

* About to connect() to dw.com.com port 80 (#0)
* Trying 216.239.122.227 ... connected
* Connected to dw.com.com (216.239.122.227) port 80 (#0)
> GET
> /redir?edId=3&siteId=4&oId=3000-2242_4-10845728&ontId=2242_4&spi=abf20204d70bae9a07c1a6598b0a2573&lop=btn&ltype=dl_dlnow&pid=11015803&mfgId=6288502&merId=6288502&pguid=q-Zp-AoPjF0AABWxUcYAAAFt&destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.cnet.com%2F3001-2242_4-10845728.html%3Fspi%3Dabf20204d70bae9a07c1a6598b0a2573%26part%3Ddl-6288502
> HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.4 (i586-pc-mingw32msvc) libcurl/7.19.4 zlib/1.2.3
> Host: dw.com.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:39:43 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.0
< Pragma: no-cache
< Cache-control: no-cache
< Location:
http://download.cnet.com/3001-2242_4-10845728.html?spi=abf20204d70bae9a07c1a6598b0a2573&part=dl-6288502
< Content-Length: 0
< P3P: CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa PSAa PSDa IVAi IVDi CONi OUR OTRi IND
PHY ONL UNI FIN COM NAV INT DEM STA"
< Content-Type: text/plain
<
* Connection #0 to host dw.com.com left intact
* Issue another request to this URL:
'http://download.cnet.com/3001-2242_4-10845728.html?spi=abf20204d70bae9a07c1a6598b0a2573&part=dl-6288502'
* About to connect() to download.cnet.com port 80 (#1)
* Trying 216.239.122.178 ... connected
* Connected to download.cnet.com (216.239.122.178) port 80 (#1)
> GET
> /3001-2242_4-10845728.html?spi=abf20204d70bae9a07c1a6598b0a2573&part=dl-6288502
> HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.4 (i586-pc-mingw32msvc) libcurl/7.19.4 zlib/1.2.3
> Host: download.cnet.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:39:44 GMT
< Via: HTTP/1.0 c18-rb-tron-farm1-mav-app2.cnet.com:80
(cnwk.proxy.servlet.PathProxyServlet $Revision: 218012 $)
< Content-Language: en-US
< Expires: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:45:44 GMT
< Cache-Control: max-age=360
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
< Set-Cookie: rbSessionId=Cg+MmEo85qAEn/Jd35I; path=/; expires=Thu,
20-Aug-2009 09:39:44 GMT
< Set-Cookie: rbSessionId=Cg+LiUo85qAEn/JdlrM; path=/; expires=Thu,
20-Aug-2009 09:39:44 GMT
< P3P: CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa PSAa PSDa IVAi IVDi CONi OUR OTRi IND
PHY ONL UNI FIN COM NAV INT DEM STA"
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
<
{ [data not shown]
########################################################################
100.0%* Connection #1 to host download.cnet.com left intact

* Closing connection #0
* Closing connection #1

From the above, I can see that one redirect was accomplished, but I
understand nothing else about what took place, only that the
"Macrium-Reflect-Free-Edition" download was not initiated.

Can "cURL" accomplish such a procedure, or does the following (FAQ, section
4.14) apply in this case?

==================================================
==================================================
4.14 Redirects work in browser but not with curl!

curl supports HTTP redirects fine (see item 3.8). Browsers generally support
at least two other ways to perform directs that curl does not:

- Meta tags. You can write a HTML tag that will cause the browser to
redirect to another given URL after a certain time.

- Javascript. You can write a Javascript program embedded in a HTML page
that redirects the browser to another given URL.

There is no way to make curl follow these redirects. You must either
manually figure out what the page is set to do, or you write a script that
parses the results and fetches the new URL.
==================================================
==================================================

If the above does not apply here, can someone tell me how this download can
be accomplished? A pointer to some sort of tutorial would be helpful. I am
using "curl-7.19.4-win32-nossl-sspi" running under Windows XP Pro SP2.

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Received on 2009-06-20