Essentially all web servers receive a page request from the client (typically a browser...but in this instance it's curl) and serve the page to the client. It's up to the client to interpret the page...render it in a GUI window..run embedded java script...or whatever. Curl doesnt contain a rendering engine or JavaScript interpreter. It just received the stream if bytes from the server. So saving it to disk is probably the best you can hope for with curl alone. Sounds like what he needs is a headless browser? Maybe? Server side code (cgi scripts etc) should "run". They are part of the "response" from the web server.

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On Sep 15, 2012, at 2:18 AM, Shoeb Ali <shoeb.ali_at_sasken.com> wrote:

> Hi Fredrik,
> Thanks for your reply. Yes this is really what i get. What i really need is the value of req.responseText in the code.
>
> Regards,
> Shoeb
> ________________________________________
> From: curl-users [curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Fredrik Gustafsson [iveqy_at_iveqy.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 10:48 PM
> To: the curl tool
> Subject: Re: how to exceute script instaed of downloading it
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:17:09PM +0530, Shoeb Ali wrote:
>> Hi,
>> when i do "curl http://myserver.com/Test.jsp" curl downloads Test.jsp. What i want is execute the Test.jsp and see the result. Please help me.
>> //what i see on the console.
>> function processStateChange() {
>> if (req.readyState == 4) { // Complete
>> //alert(req.readyState);
>> if (req.status == 200) { // OK response
>> //alert(req.status);
>> res="< LICENSERESPONSE > < LICENSE version=2.0.0.0>"+req.responseText+"< /LICENSE >< /LICENSERESPONSE >";
>> //alert(req.responseText);
>> document.getElementById('divId').innerHTML = res;
>>
>> } else {
>> alert("Problem: " + req.statusText);
>> }
>> }
>>
>> // what i see in the browser and what i exactly want
>> < LICENSERESPONSE > < LICENSE version=2.0.0.0> *DGD1rz2UdqU1qYR0OZ4nYL08jTaiFmHZyUlwn2WJiZuOA3dQEYHJtOX!Xx8P*YeDXWMSn*1i0HDJDItHSR1xtKPMuZDYcy7Jkc7wjGjCUSADXp2gqiVkSP < /LICENSE >< /LICENSERESPONSE >
>>
>
> Curl does network traffic, not javascript interpretion. I suggest you
> read the javascript code, find out what it does and then do that locally
> instead. Is the code above really everything you get?
>
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