On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16 June 2010 11:04, Claudio_Unige <claudiounige_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Claudio_Unige wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sorry I must have messed up, there is no actual popup in the html or
> >>> javascript code, it is as if the server after the html page sends more
> stuff
> >>> (I dont know aspx at all). I believe it is something like a request
> with
> >>> type octet stream... Unfortunately I cannot be more precise since I
> really
> >>> dont know aspx nor have the source available.
> >>
> >> As usual, you can just snoop what your browser does with a plugin such
> as
> >> LiveHTTPHeaders or similar, and then you mimic those requests (closely)
> with
> >> libcurl.
> >
> > Hi,
> > I didnt know LiveHTTPHeader, I just used wireshark. Now everything is
> > clearer the website is sending:
> >
> > Content-Disposition: Attachment; filename="myfile.zip"
>
> This is not the part you should be looking for. Look for the request
> from the browser just before that and then change your program to make
> libcurl make the same request.
>
> > At least I understood how it works now Ill go through the libcurl docs to
> > see how to retrieve that file and save it in memory or in a File pointer.
>
> Retrieving that is the same as retrieving anything else. The point is
> you have to tell libcurl to make the request that results in the
> server sending back that response. It won't happen by itself.
>
> If, however, the initial response from the server contains a Location:
> header, then Firefox will automatically follow that, whereas libcurl
> will not unless you tell it to follow redirects.
>
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> Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com>
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Hi,

Unfortunately I dont see a second request coming from firefox and with
libcurl I printed the headers and dont have location header, also if it was
location header shouldnt firefox display an empty tab, I remember I had that
behavior some time ago.

-Claudio

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