OK, I'm trying to use curl to do a simple login to E-bay. Yeah, I know it sounds
stupid, but this is a project that I'm doing to learn how curl deals with cookies
and POSTs/GETs.

I'm using the following curl options:
curl_easy_setopt(plug_args->curl_handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "mycookies.fil");
curl_easy_setopt(plug_args->curl_handle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, TRUE);
curl_easy_setopt(plug_args->curl_handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);

The first time I send my info to the side, they send back a cookie (and since
I performed the curl with the curl_easy_setopt(plug_args->curl_handle,
CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "mycookies.fil"), I'm assming that enables the cookie
parser as explained in the docs). They also send back an "Object Moved"
header with the "Location:" of where I need to send curl next.

However, the "Location:" seems to be cut off, I only get the following
in the header:

HTTP/1.1 302 Object Moved
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 01:56:42 GMT
Connection: close
Location: http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?
HTTP/1.1 501 Not Implemented
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 01:58:23 GMT
Connection: close

There should be a lot more stuff ater the ?, but it's empty.

Here's what I'm sending:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=AdultLogin&userid=%s&password=%s

Just assume that userid and password are legit and work normally through a browser.

So where do I go from here?

I tried to make my own HTTP/HTML handling code, but it got too complicated. I was
hoping curl would help.

Any help would be appreciated.

Sincerely,

GRE

P.S. I got the URL info from a program called Bidwatcher, which does
work properly with E-bay, so the URLs should be valid. I'm also
URL encoding the "password=%s" as they did in the Bidwatcher program.

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