Hello Daniel,

Thursday, June 07, 2001, 5:30:15 PM, you wrote:

DS> On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, YAHOO!!! wrote:

>> exec("C:/PHP/curl -m 120 -d Login=login -d Passord=password
>> https://secure.server.com/login.asp -L", $return_message,$return_number);
>>
>> And I get the result as wrong Login or password. Login and password from
>> HTML form are accepted by server.

DS> You mean that when you fill them in with your browser it works?

DS> Then, start trying to identify how the browser's POST differs from yours:

DS> 1. Did you fill in user+password in the browser before the actual post? I.e
DS> do you get a 4XX error code in the HTTP headers back when you use curl?

DS> 2. Your POST line doesn't include "btnSubmit=Login" which may or may not be
DS> relevant. (the HTML <form> tag includes it)

DS> 3. Your browser uses a user-agent string that the remote server may use
DS> to detect "false" logins.

DS> If the -L means that curl follows a location, it may imply that several
DS> requests are performed and thus we can add:

DS> 4. You might get cookies back that need to be sent on subsequent requests,
DS> enable curl's cookie engine with -b.

DS> 5. You might need to set the referer string, try -e.

DS> 6. There are probably more details I haven't thought of right now.

DS> Welcome to give-me-your-best-guess hour!

OK. It seems to me We found what was wrong

I have had to include '-d btnSubmit=Login' too.

Now it works :))
Thanks !!!!

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