Hi all,

Novice curl user here, hoping I could get some help. I need to write a
script to log into http://www.ghcommunity.info/maintenance/ but I
can't get it to work.

The <form> section of the page's source code looks like this:

<form action="/maintenance/login/login" method="post">
        <table width="300" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
style="margin: 0 auto;">
                <tr valign="top">
                        <td width="100" height="24">
                                <div align="left">Suite Number:</div>
                        </td>
                        <td width="200">
                                <div align="left">
                                        <input id="user[login]" maxlength="15" name="user[login]"
size="20" type="text" value="" />
                                </div>
                        </td>
                </tr>
                <tr valign="top">
                        <td width="100">
                                <div align="left">Password: </div>
                        </td>
                        <td width="200">
                                <div align="left">
                                        <input id="user[password]" maxlength="15" name="user[password]"
size="20" type="password" value="" />
                                </div>
                        </td>
                </tr>
        </table>

    <p>
       <input class="smallbutton" type="submit" value="Login" />
    </p>
</form>

Based on that I tried

curl -F "user[login]=XXX&user[password]=YYY"
http://ghcommunity.info/maintenance/login/login

But it just gave me a message that I was being redirected to the login page.

Later, I tried the trick of copying the source to a local file and
changing POST to GET to see what the resulting URL looked like, and I
found that it used "%5B" and "%5D" instead of "[" and "]", so I tried
this:

curl -F "user%5Blogin%5D=XXX&user%5Bpassword%5D=YYY"
http://ghcommunity.info/maintenance/login/login

In this case, though, it just returns an error page, the same as I get
in my browser if I try to navigate directly to
http://ghcommunity.info/maintenance/login/login.

Any ideas what might be the problem?
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Received on 2012-10-25