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curl cookie and cookiejar trouble

I've got a script that curls a site using a specific cookie value in a cookie file. When I run this on my local system, the server returns the same value to my cookie jar, as per my expectations. When ...
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CURL not working in node.js in CentOS 5.7, but works fine in debian 2.6.32-5

working on an app in node.js, On the test server (debian 2.6.32-5) it works flawlessly, on CentOS 5.7 I get an error. using the curlrequest node.js library, and the error that comes up is "failed to ...
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Problems restarting Apache - Curl related

I'm having a problem compiling LAMP, I have everything compiled and working, but when I try to restart apache I get the following error: seg fault or similar nasty error detected in the parent ...
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Using curl to request URL that redirects to relative URL with anchor tag

I'm using curl to request a URL that redirects to a different URL using a Location: line like: Location:/path/to/resource#name As I understand it, that line in the redirect response is invalid per ...
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how to make curl uploads faster with firewall

We recently moved a new server and are facing the slow upload issues . We suspect this because of firewall . how do I make sure applications like ftp,curl become faster with firewall. Any inputs ...
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File uploads taking more time

We recently moved to a new server. We have observed that the file upload done from the ftp command is taking around 5sec for 5MB file. But same file uploaded through CURL command is taking about 140 ...
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How to change libcurl SSL backend from gnutls to openssl on Ubuntu server

I am getting gnutls specific errors in my Tornado webserver while processing Google OpenID SSL responses. One of the suggestions I got from Tornado mailing list is to try OpenSSL backend instead of ...
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my share hosting has disabled all socket functions

I have hosted my website with squarebrothers.com They have disabled curl_exec, fsockopen, socket_create functions. They say that these are security vulnerabilities and they have blocked. And they ...
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Enabling CURL on Ubuntu 11.10

I have installed curl: sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl and I have updated my php.ini file to include(I also tried .so): extension=php_curl.dll To test if curl is ...
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Using curl to make a HEAD request with a hard timeout

I'd like to use curl to send a HTTP HEAD request to a URL to verify that it is working correctly (server is up and sends a successful response). At the end, I need the final HTTP response code ...
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Quality Center REST API

I'm trying to update defects in quality centre using their REST API from a curl-based script. So far, I've managed to authenticate, store the cookie, and retrieve a defect's data from QC. My ...
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How is it possible that I can do a host lookup but not a curl?

Has anyone ever seen this before? Note that this happens not only with google.com, but with every domain I try. It's a wireless connection (WEP), but I'm not sure how that would be relevant: $ curl ...
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CURL - saving multiple HTTP responses

I've learned that we can send multiple HTTP requests with CURL by doing this: curl -I http://linuxbyexample.co.nr http://lne.blogdns.com/lbe or this: xargs curl -I < url-list.txt How can we ...
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What is the difference between installing libcurl4-gnutls-dev or libcurl4-nss-dev in ubuntu 11.10?

For a software that I am installing in an ubuntu server, it needs the curl deb packages. When I try to install libcurl4-dev it says that this is a virtual package and I need to install ...
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PHP CURL Enable Linux

I have some php scripts that I've been running on an Apache server on a windows machine. These scripts use curl which isn't enabled by default in php. For windows enabling it was as easy and ...
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How to use cURL to FTPS upload to SecureTransport (hint: SITE AUTH and client certificates)

I'm trying to connect to SecureTransport 4.5.1 via FTPS using curl compiled with gnutls. You need to use --ftp-alternative-to-user "SITE AUTH" per http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2006-07/0068.html Do ...
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curl --ftp-ssl to grab all files in remote directory

Is it possible to get all files in a directory using curl? Here's my string so far: curl --ftp-ssl -k ftp://user:pass@IP This will LIST the files in the user FTP directory, how do I adjust this ...
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curl SSL issue with RapidSSL certificates

I'm getting the famous "SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed" problem when attempting to curl a domain that has a rapidssl certificate installed. I'm running Ubuntu ...
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using curl to trigger a notification over http e.g. when a long running task has completed?

Today I left work with a long running task running in the shell. For the sake of argument let's say I'm using 'wc -l' to count lines in a huge file. I'd like to get a notification when it is done, but ...
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Install Fedora Source package on RHEL / CentOS

I'm attempting to upgrade curl on RHEL / CentOS machines. I've found what seems to be the appropriate source packages in a number of repos. (ie, ...
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cURL on Linux not compiled, although installed,why?

the phpinfo() shows but when i install zencart on my vps hosting. it shows why? how to correct it?
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how to install npm if couldn't resolve npmjs.org

when m doing curl it says could not resolve host what can i do ? curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'npmjs.org' http://npmjs.org/ /etc/resolv.conf search ...
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How do you enable SSL for PHP cURL on Linux?

That's all there is to my question: how do you enable SSL for PHP cURL on Linux (specifically Ubuntu)? I'm not finding the answer by Googling it.
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curl scrables accented characters

I'd like to transfered a url with curl, but the accented characters are scrambled. This is what I get: Bulletin cÙtier pour la bande des 20 milles de Port Camargue ‡ Saint<br> Raphael le mardi ...
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Curl POST - 411 Length Required

We have a RestFUL API we build in PHP. If we make the request: curl -u api-key:api-passphrase https://api.domain.com/v1/product -X POST We get back: 411 - Length Required Though if we simply add ...
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Install PHP 5.1.2, Requires: libcurl.so.3()(64bit) error

I'm trying to install php 5.1.2 on a CentOS 6 server (for grandfathering in old websites). I downloaded an RPM file ( php-5.1.2-5.x86_64.rpm ), but when I use: yum install php-5.1.2-5.x86_64.rpm I ...
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How do I pipe the output of uptime/df to curl?

I want to send the output of uptime and df commands to a web app using cURL. I tried: uptime | curl http://someurl.com -T - But that didn't seem to send the data. What is the proper way to send ...
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Curl always returns same 404 page

No matter what URL I specify for curl I always get the same HTML 404 Error page back. If I use the --verbose option, it looks like curl always connects to the same IP address. $ curl --verbose ...
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How to log outgoing http requests from PHP + cURL?

I have a PHP script set up that makes cURL requests whenever an action is performed on a site. The problem is that the information is being POSTed twice whenever the action is run. I need to work ...
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How to send a local file and expect other file?

I'm trying to make a simple web call work in command line mode and what I would like to do is: send a document file to http://domain.com/convert/ receive as the response a PDF file I can see that ...
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Curl - download file range

I'm trying to download a range of files using curl. curl -R -O -z /dir/file1.png http://somesite.com/file[1-100].png The problem I'm having is how to make the "file1.png" change to the approperate ...
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Why cant Perl find my Curl library?

I created a new module using h2xs which built a module tree for me and a bunch of files. Git as far as running make test but then make failed saying it couldnt find WWW::Curl, but I had installed ...
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Installing cURL 7.19 on ubuntu

I am transferring from a server with Ubuntu on to one with CentOS and I am encountering a problem regarding cURL. Our current site runs cURL 7.19 but Centos yum only finds 7.15. I get an error with ...
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Curl doesn't work in crontab

I'm new to set up server settings and to the whole unix thing so maybe this is simple. I'm trying to start crontab with curl in but it doesn't work. I want it go to file and send email every 30 ...
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How do I use curl in a cron job?

I need to set up a cron job in cpanel that calls a URL (on the same server) once a week. I was going to use wget but it turns out this is disabled on the shared server being used. Is there an ...
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Nagios + check_http with header data

With cURL, I can successfully log into the website I want have Nagios test by passing --cookies. Something like this: curl --cookie "user=4reqrerqwr;userlogin=123adsfjlk324" ...
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curl won't work when Apache running as system user

I am running windows 7 x64 with apache 2.2.19 and PHP 5.3.6. When Apache is running as the system user, curl won't work on some https requests, and won't write cookies under any circumstance. When I ...
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Editing hosts file of my Mediatemple DV container

I have a PHP script in a Mediatemple (dv) server that uses cURL to post data to a remote website. This remote website also resides in a (dv) server and doesn't have a domain name yet. I can only ...
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How to intentionally degrade an outbound connection in linux

I am testing the timeout handling for an outbound CURL in a PHP app I am developing after an outage at an affiliate brought down my site. I am looking for a way to intentionally slowdown or ...
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how to install some extensions on my centos (vmware)VPS with Cpanel

I require the following extensions to be installed for a software to work-- * pdo_mysql extension * curl extension * zip extension - for automatic updates * ftp extension - for automatic updates * ...
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download only new files from ftp using WGET/cUrl

i have Windows 2008 Server on which i store DB backups on daily basis. I want to be able to download new files only using wget, curl or windows built-in FTP doesn't matter. Can you help me with ...
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How to install cURL (with SSL) to PHP 5 on IIS7

Is there any good straightforward way to install cURL on my PHP 5.3.6 (with SSL support) ? Im using the IIS7 version of PHP and im running Windows 7 32bit. I have php_curl enabled in extensions in ...
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SSL error connecting when stress testing server using cURL

I have a webserver running Apache2 using mod-ssl which will be the target primarily of small HTTPS requests using cURL. In order to see how well the server would cope with many requests at the same ...
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FreeBSD Dump with cURL/rsync

I'm trying to create a backup script using FreeBSD's dump to take a snapshot of a filesystem, but instead of storing the snapshot on disk I want to pipe the output from dump into cURL or rsync so its ...
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How can I use curl to upload and post a file with the following form?

The form html from the page I'm trying to upload to is as follows: <form action="upload_handler" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <input type="file" name="myfile"> ...
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Trying to install pecl Solr extension but it needs curl

When I try to install solr-beta: pecl install solr-beta I get this error: pecl/solr requires PHP extension "curl" No valid packages found install failed The thing is curl is already installed and ...
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What is PHP cURL and libcurl version relationship?

I'm running php with curl support on a mac. cURL in php works fine(ish) but I noticed an oddity reported by phpinfo(). It states that curl support is 7.19.7 But using the otool command, I get this: ...
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how do I install curl on a remote web server

I have a remote linux based ftp webserver? how can I install curl on there? i want to use it through PHP
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Services Similar to Cronless?

Are there any other well known cron alternative services to manage large amounts of automated tasks, such as curl'ng a url at a certain frequency? The only one I have found is cronless.com
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How do I enable ciphers for NSS?

I am trying to use curl built with NSS (not built with OpenSSL) on Fedora 14 to connect to a webpage over https. The server to which I am connecting (example.com) uses the RC4-SHA cipher for its SSL. ...

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