Thanks for your reply. You mentioned that it worked fine for you. What OS
are you using & what version of curl? What output do you get?

I still get the same garbage back.

Thanks,
Scott

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:10 AM, G. T. Stresen-Reuter <
tedmasterweb_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi and welcome to the list!
>
> On Apr 29, 2010, at 1:58 AM, ubuntu serv.user wrote:
>
> > I've read the cURL tutorial (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html
> )
> >
> > When I navigate to the following in a browser:
> >
> >
> http://www.kayak.com/s/search/air?do=y&ft=rt&ns=y&cb=e&pa=1&l1=MSP&t1=e&df=us1&d1=05/20/2010&l2=PHX&t2=e&d2=05/23/2010&b=US
> >
> > I get the results back that I expect.
> >
> > When I type the below in the terminal window from my computer running
> Ubuntu Desktop 9.10:
> >
> > curl -d
> "do=y&ft=rt&ns=y&cb=e&pa=1&l1=MSP&t1=e&df=us1&d1=05/20/2010&l2=PHX&t2=e&d2=05/23/2010&b=US"
> http://www.kayak.com/s/search/air
> >
> > I get the following back (garbage):
>
> From the man page:
>
> -d/--data <data>
> (HTTP) Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP
> server, in the same way
> that a browser does when a user has filled in an HTML form
> and presses the submit
> button. This will cause curl to pass the data to the server
> using the content-type
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to -F/--form.
>
> -d/--data is the same as --data-ascii. To post data purely
> binary, you should instead
> use the --data-binary option. To URL-encode the value of a
> form field you may use
> --data-urlencode.
>
> If any of these options is used more than once on the same
> command line, the data
> pieces specified will be merged together with a separating
> &-symbol. Thus, using '-d
> name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a post
> chunk that looks like
> 'name=daniel&skill=lousy'.
>
> If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a
> file name to read the
> data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from
> stdin. The contents of the
> file must already be URL-encoded. Multiple files can also be
> specified. Posting data
> from a file named 'foobar' would thus be done with --data
> @foobar.
>
>
>
> What that means is that the "form values" of the request are sent to the
> server using a POST method.
>
> Try just plain-jane curl URL as in:
>
> curl "
> http://www.kayak.com/s/search/air?do=y&ft=rt&ns=y&cb=e&pa=1&l1=MSP&t1=e&df=us1&d1=05/20/2010&l2=PHX&t2=e&d2=05/23/2010&b=US
> "
>
> and it should work just fine (just did for me).
>
> Ted Stresen-Reuter
>
> (Finally, a question I'm able to answer!)
>
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