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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Updated: August 7, 2005 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) +Updated: August 26, 2005 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) _ _ ____ _ ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ FAQ 4.11 Why does my HTTP range requests return the full document? 4.12 Why do I get "certificate verify failed" ? 4.13 Why is curl -R on Windows one hour off? + 4.14 Redirects work in browser but not with curl! 5. libcurl Issues 5.1 Is libcurl thread-safe? @@ -398,6 +399,8 @@ FAQ curl -L http://redirector.com + Not all redirects are HTTP ones, see 4.14 + 3.9 How do I use curl in my favorite programming language? There exist many language interfaces/bindings for curl that integrates it @@ -743,6 +746,21 @@ FAQ uses file modification times and it is not easily worked around. For details on this problem, read this: http://www.codeproject.com/datetime/dstbugs.asp + 4.14 Redirects work in browser but not with curl! + + curl supports HTTP redirects fine (see item 3.8). Browsers generally support + at least two other ways to perform directs that curl does not: + + 1 - Meta tags. You can write a HTML tag that will cause the browser to + redirect to another given URL after a certain time. + + 2 - Javascript. You can write a javascript program embeded in a HTML page + that redirects the browser to another given URL. + + There is no way to make curl follow these redirects. You must either + manually figure out what the page is set to do, or you write a script that + parses the results and fetches the new URL. + 5. libcurl Issues |