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RE: Problem connecting to password protected page

From: Mayuresh Kadu <mskadu_at_smjet.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:36:31 +0530

Maybe what u need is a valid "REFERER". Refer to Point 7.0 on
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html. It says

"A HTTP request may include a 'referer' field, which can be used to tell
from which URL the client got to this particular resource. Some
programs/scripts check the referer field of requests to verify that this
wasn't arriving from an external site or an unknown page. While this is a
stupid way to check something so easily forged, many scripts still do it.
Using curl, you can put anything you want in the referer-field and thus more
easily be able to fool the server into serving your request."

Use curl to set the referer field with:

curl -e http://curl.haxx.se daniel.haxx.se

Hope this helps ..

- Mayuresh

-----Original Message-----
From: curl-users-admin_at_lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:curl-users-admin_at_lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Gary Danko
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 12:29 AM
To: curl-users_at_lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Problem connecting to password protected page

Okay I am getting somewhere. I can authenticate but I am getting an
error... Still plodding along but I thought I'd post it anyway. :)

[baracus:~] gdanko% curl -v -e
"http://www.premiereinteractive.com/cgi-bin/members.cgi?stream=shows/PHILHEN
DREAL20031121&site=philhend&type=real_show"
-d "iUserName=mylogin&iPassword=mypassword&submit=Submit"
https://members.premiereinteractive.com/pcd/eGateChk
* About to connect() to members.premiereinteractive.com:443
* Connected to authstream.premiereinteractive.com (65.83.107.249) port 443
* SSL connection using DES-CBC3-SHA
* Server certificate:
* subject: /C=US/ST=California/L=Sherman Oaks/O=Premiere Radio
Networks/OU=Premiere Interactive/CN=members.premiereinteractive.com
* start date: 2002-09-16 00:00:00 GMT
* expire date: 2004-10-07 23:59:59 GMT
* common name: members.premiereinteractive.com (matched)
* issuer: /C=US/O=RSA Data Security, Inc./OU=Secure Server
Certification Authority
> POST /pcd/eGateChk HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.10.2 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0) libcurl/7.10.2
OpenSSL/0.9.7b zlib/1.1.4
Host: members.premiereinteractive.com
Pragma: no-cache
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
Referer:
http://www.premiereinteractive.com/cgi-bin/members.cgi?stream=shows/PHILHEND
REAL20031121&site=philhend&type=real_show
Content-Length: 55
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

iUserName=mylogin&iPassword=mypassword&submit=Submit<HTML>
<BODY>
<CENTER>
<BR>
<BR>
<font size=4>
Sorry, the following error has occurred:
<BR>
<p>Our subscription application expects to be called via a link from a
publisher's web site.<br>It also expects to be provided with a valid
magazine identifier.<br>It will not run correctly otherwise.<br>
<BR>
We are unable to continue processing your request at this time.
<BR>
The site Webmaster has been notified.
<BR>
Please try again later.</font>
</CENTER>
</BODY>
</HTML>
* Connection #0 left intact
* Closing connection #0

Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Gary Danko wrote:
>
>
>>I still have to authenticate though.. that is the problem.
>>
>>Remember I go from the first URL (audioarchives) to
>>members.premiereinteractive.com where I have to authenticate with an HTML
>>form. I then go back to audioarchives. It loops me around and I do not
know
>>how to handle the form-based authentication and the looping back to my
>>starting point.
>
>
> I would recommend you to get a grip of the basics by reading The Art Of
> Scripting HTTP Requests Using Curl:
>
> http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html
>

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Received on 2003-11-26