On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, David Stephenson wrote:

> On a browser the site would put a GUI in which to enter the username and
> password for the site. I have tried various options suggested in the manual
> for entering this information (-u etc) but I always get the web page back
> "you are not authorized to view...". Is there something I am missing here.

Use a tool that figures out what your browser does, then make curl do the
same. See the second half of this list:

         http://curl.haxx.se/docs/relatedtools.html

Most likely (based on your description) you're expected to POST the
user+password to get logged in.

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