I was trying:

curl -vL -d "url=index%3Dbooks&field-keywords=0446394319" -o
/tmp/temp.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-5640957-2809605

and it seems to just get amazon's error page.

> On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Alistair Ross wrote:
>
>> My attempts at the commandline code can't seem to follow the re-directs
>> properly and end up just GETting the search input page.
>
> So what command line did you try?
>
> Use -L to follow redirects and -d to send the POST.
>
> BTW, the curl-users might be a better list to get advice on using the curl
> tool...
>
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