On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Iris Jing wrote:

> I still have one concern regarding user-agent. As Linus suggest, I can use
> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,"bla bla") to set up the user-agent
> before I send out the request, but my problem is: what should I put in "bla
> bla".

Yes, that is your problem.

> Is there any way to figure out what kind of header the https server
> requires?

Yes, by looking in the source code they use or by asking the admins of the
site.

> I guess I have to make the remote server satisfied with the header I sent
> before it would allow me to get the target file...

Since the curl command line tool worked, a first shot could be to clone its
user-agent and see if it works.

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