I realized that I had been using commas instead of ampersands shortly after
than e-mail, yesterday was a bad day for me. Thank you for your help, also
yes the -d was better suited than the multi-part option.

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Paige Thompson <erratic_at_devel.ws> wrote:
>
>> hey all, I'm having a bit of trouble getting curl to authenticate and get
>> cookies from digg.com:
>>
>> curl -L -v -c asshat1234.txt -F
>> "username=asshat1234,password=cheese123,persistent=on" "
>> http://digg.com/login/prepare/digg"
>>
>> I've sort of been observing this process in fiddler2, the server sends a
>> 302 after posting to prepare and it sends me to
>> http://digg.com/login/verify/digg which is supposed to give me some
>> cookies:
>>
>
> I think the server just isn't expecting a "multipart/form-data" submission.
> This seems to work:
>
> curl -L -v -c asshat1234.txt \
> -d "username=asshat1234&password=cheese123&persistent=on" \
> "http://digg.com/login/prepare/digg"
>
> At least, the returned page contains a "Logout" link instead of a "Login"
> link... :)
>
> And I get these cookies:
>
> digg.com FALSE / FALSE 1306533282 ccc 1
> digg.com FALSE / FALSE 0 PHPSESSID 73b602aab980a19111178afb7741b388
> digg.com FALSE / FALSE 0 1337 1
> digg.com FALSE / FALSE 1338069282 gc 06afd08ab5ad91a0d44b00623b7155db
> digg.com FALSE / FALSE 1277416482 loginname asshat1234
> digg.com FALSE / FALSE 1277416482 id_hash
> 927ca1d58a8d7efeab28abb11b78b10b
> digg.com FALSE / FALSE 1277416482 last_auth_method digg
> digg.com FALSE / FALSE 1243461281 noPermaFrame deleted
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
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