On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 sc2000_at_qwest.net wrote:

> 2. capture the issued cookie(s) to a file with a "-D" switch, and then

Use -c to store cookies instead, it is much better.

> I have spent hours trying to figure out why with no result; hence this my
> desperate call for help.

You are using a recent version of curl, right?

When you use -v or --trace-ascii, can you see your cookies getting sent fine
in the second request?

If you use LiveHTTPHeaders when doing the steps manually, how do the requests
differ from the ones you issue manually with curl?

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