> When I try to get the page from the sample program,
> however, this part of the page is not there. Why? Is
> libcurl dropping it? Is google sending a different
> page? How can I get that script to be included in the
> output from libcurl? Thanks!

Odds are Google is checking the user agent header string and returning a different page. Adding favourites is one of those things
that's done differently in each browser, IIRC.

I have a dumper script at http://ii.net/~locust/dumpenv.cgi that should reveal what agent info you're sending. IE6 on my machine
yields:

HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Wheras a (slighly dated) version of curl on a FreeBSD machine gives me:

HTTP_USER_AGENT=curl/7.9.2 (i386--freebsd4.4) libcurl 7.9.2 (OpenSSL 0.9.6a)

If you really wanted to pretend to be IE6, you could do something like this:

curl_easy_setopt(curlHandle, CURL_USERAGENT,
    "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)");

--
Andrew Francis
Software Developer
Family Health Network
----- Original Message -----
From: <ZOVIRL_at_sbcglobal.net>
To: <curl-library_at_lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 6:55 AM
Subject: Problem retrieving javascript
> Libcurl is a great tool, but I'm having some trouble
> getting it to work with Javascript.  What I am posting
> here is a distilled version of my problem.  Hopefully,
> someone will know what I am missing.
>
> I am using the code from sample.c (included with
> libcurl, also available at
> http://curl.haxx.se/lxr/curl/docs/examples/simple.c).
> The only change I made to the code is to change the
> URL to point to www.google.com
>
> Now, here is the problem.  When I load google in IE
> and look at the source, this snippet is near the
> bottom:
> <script>
> if (!hp.isHomePage('http://www.google.com/'))
> {document.write("<p><a href=\"/mgyhp.html\"
> onClick=\"style.behavior='url
> (#default#homepage)';setHomePage
> ('http://www.google.com/');\">Make Google Your
> Homepage!</a>");}
> </script>
>
> When I try to get the page from the sample program,
> however, this part of the page is not there.  Why?  Is
> libcurl dropping it?  Is google sending a different
> page?  How can I get that script to be included in the
> output from libcurl?  Thanks!
>
>
>
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