Hi Daniel You are right about that http://www.officedepot.com;**jsessionid=** 0000EXsMRFMF5kwJo26qgOif31d:**13ddq0tfm is treated as search term by Chrome BUT I am afraid I was not entirely clear that THIS url http://www.officedepot.com/promo/redir.do?siteid=qpF0HYnRugA-63LcCNNtsuVrjXbS8XCqNA&url=http://www.officedepot.com needs to be used as seed one. The server responds with 301 with that weird "Location" header. However when you try this seed url in chrome it navigates correctly to new location. The mystery for me is that Chrome seems to get well-formed location header in contrast to curl. Here is Chrome log captured from chrome://net-internals/#events. Please see below...
Any special requests headers that make the difference? Wonder if I can achieve similar effect with curl. http://www.officedepot.com/promo/redir.do?siteid=qpF0HYnRugA-63LcCNNtsuVrjXbS8XCqNA&url=http://www.officedepot.com Start Time: Sun Dec 25 2011 22:32:59 GMT-0600 (CST) t=1324873979670 [st= 0] +REQUEST_ALIVE [dt=396] t=1324873979670 [st= 0] URL_REQUEST_START_JOB [dt= 0] --> load_flags = 68223105 (ENABLE_LOAD_TIMING | MAIN_FRAME | MAYBE_USER_GESTURE | VALIDATE_CACHE | VERIFY_EV_CERT) --> method = "GET" --> priority = 0 --> url = "http://www.officedepot.com/promo/redir.do?siteid=qpF0HYnRugA-63LcCNNtsuVrjXbS8XCqNA&url=http://www.officedepot.com"; t=1324873979670 [st= 0] +URL_REQUEST_START_JOB [dt=116] --> load_flags = 68223105 (ENABLE_LOAD_TIMING | MAIN_FRAME | MAYBE_USER_GESTURE | VALIDATE_CACHE | VERIFY_EV_CERT) --> method = "GET" --> priority = 0 --> url = "http://www.officedepot.com/promo/redir.do?siteid=qpF0HYnRugA-63LcCNNtsuVrjXbS8XCqNA&url=http://www.officedepot.com"; t=1324873979670 [st= 0] HTTP_CACHE_GET_BACKEND [dt= 0] t=1324873979670 [st= 0] HTTP_CACHE_OPEN_ENTRY [dt= 1] --> net_error = -2 (FAILED) t=1324873979671 [st= 1] HTTP_CACHE_CREATE_ENTRY [dt= 5] t=1324873979676 [st= 6] HTTP_CACHE_ADD_TO_ENTRY [dt= 0] t=1324873979676 [st= 6] +HTTP_STREAM_REQUEST [dt= 3] t=1324873979679 [st= 9] HTTP_STREAM_REQUEST_BOUND_TO_JOB --> source_dependency = {"id":42262,"type":11} t=1324873979679 [st= 9] -HTTP_STREAM_REQUEST t=1324873979679 [st= 9] +HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST [dt= 0] t=1324873979679 [st= 9] HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST_HEADERS --> GET /promo/redir.do?siteid=qpF0HYnRugA-63LcCNNtsuVrjXbS8XCqNA&url=http://www.officedepot.com HTTP/1.1 Host: www.officedepot.com Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.10 Chromium/15.0.874.106 Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3 Cookie: [value was stripped] t=1324873979679 [st= 9] -HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST t=1324873979679 [st= 9] +HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_HEADERS [dt=106] t=1324873979679 [st= 9] HTTP_STREAM_PARSER_READ_HEADERS [dt=106] t=1324873979785 [st=115] HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_RESPONSE_HEADERS --> HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: IBM_HTTP_Server Pragma: No-cache Cache-Control: no-cache,no-store,max-age=0 Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Location: http://www.officedepot.com Content-Encoding: gzip P3P: CP="ALL DEVa TAIa OUR BUS UNI NAV STA PRE" policyref="http://www.officedepot.com/w3c/p3p.xml"; Content-Length: 20 Content-Type: text/html Content-Language: en-US Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:32:59 GMT Connection: keep-alive Vary: Accept-Encoding Set-Cookie: [value was stripped] Set-Cookie: [value was stripped] t=1324873979785 [st=115] -HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_HEADERS t=1324873979785 [st=115] +HTTP_CACHE_WRITE_INFO [dt= 1] t=1324873979786 [st=116] URL_REQUEST_REDIRECTED --> location = "http://www.officedepot.com/"; t=1324873979786 [st=116] -URL_REQUEST_START_JOB t=1324873979786 [st=116] URL_REQUEST_START_JOB [dt= 11] --> load_flags = 68223105 (ENABLE_LOAD_TIMING | MAIN_FRAME | MAYBE_USER_GESTURE | VALIDATE_CACHE | VERIFY_EV_CERT) --> method = "GET" --> priority = 0 --> url = "http://www.officedepot.com/"; t=1324873979800 [st=130] +URL_REQUEST_START_JOB [dt=238] --> load_flags = 68223105 (ENABLE_LOAD_TIMING | MAIN_FRAME | MAYBE_USER_GESTURE | VALIDATE_CACHE | VERIFY_EV_CERT) --> method = "GET" --> priority = 0 --> url = "http://www.officedepot.com/"; t=1324873979800 [st=130] HTTP_CACHE_GET_BACKEND [dt= 0] t=1324873979800 [st=130] HTTP_CACHE_OPEN_ENTRY [dt= 0] --> net_error = -2 (FAILED) t=1324873979800 [st=130] HTTP_CACHE_CREATE_ENTRY [dt= 1] t=1324873979801 [st=131] HTTP_CACHE_ADD_TO_ENTRY [dt= 0] t=1324873979801 [st=131] +HTTP_STREAM_REQUEST [dt= 0] t=1324873979801 [st=131] HTTP_STREAM_REQUEST_BOUND_TO_JOB --> source_dependency = {"id":42293,"type":11} t=1324873979801 [st=131] -HTTP_STREAM_REQUEST t=1324873979801 [st=131] +HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST [dt= 0] t=1324873979801 [st=131] HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST_HEADERS --> GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.officedepot.com Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.10 Chromium/15.0.874.106 Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3 Cookie: [value was stripped] t=1324873979801 [st=131] -HTTP_TRANSACTION_SEND_REQUEST t=1324873979801 [st=131] +HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_HEADERS [dt=236] t=1324873979801 [st=131] HTTP_STREAM_PARSER_READ_HEADERS [dt=236] t=1324873980037 [st=367] HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_RESPONSE_HEADERS --> HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: IBM_HTTP_Server Pragma: No-cache Cache-Control: no-cache,no-store,max-age=0 Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Content-Encoding: gzip P3P: CP="ALL DEVa TAIa OUR BUS UNI NAV STA PRE" policyref="http://www.officedepot.com/w3c/p3p.xml"; Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Length: 18021 Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:33:00 GMT Connection: keep-alive Vary: Accept-Encoding t=1324873980037 [st=367] -HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_HEADERS t=1324873980037 [st=367] HTTP_CACHE_WRITE_INFO [dt= 1] t=1324873980038 [st=368] -URL_REQUEST_START_JOB t=1324873980038 [st=368] HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_BODY [dt= 0] t=1324873980039 [st=369] HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_BODY [dt= 0] t=1324873980040 [st=370] HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_BODY [dt= 0] t=1324873980040 [st=370] HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_BODY [dt= 0] t=1324873980041 [st=371] HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_BODY [dt= 0] t=1324873980041 [st=371] HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_BODY [dt= 24] t=1324873980066 [st=396] HTTP_TRANSACTION_READ_BODY [dt= 0] t=1324873980066 [st=396] -REQUEST_ALIVE On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Dec 2011, Alex Vinnik wrote: > > I am having a problem using libcurl in my Ruby app (Curb gem binds >> directly to libcurl). Specifically libcurl can't follow a weird redirect >> served by a web server. Server Location header "Location: >> http://www.officedepot.com;**jsessionid=**0000EXsMRFMF5kwJo26qgOif31d:**13ddq0tfm"; >> doesn't look RFC complaint to me. For whatever reason jsessionid gets added >> to the end of new location. >> > > Wow. That's a broken URL that I've not seen used before. > > Somehow browsers can handle this redirect. >> > > I pasted that URL into chrome, and it can't deal with it when given in the > address bar at least. It treats it as a search string instead. > > I pasted it into Firefox's URL bar and it inserted a slash in front of the > first semicolon by itself and then showed the site. > > So browsers at least aren't uniformly considering this a good address. > > if there is a way to work around this problem? >> > > No, I can't think of any. > > Since this is a fairly big site and at least one of the major browsers > support this format, I think we should consider supporting it. Even though > it would be under protest. > > Any other opinions? > > -- > > / daniel.haxx.se > ------------------------------**------------------------------**------- > List admin: > http://cool.haxx.se/list/**listinfo/curl-library<http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library> > Etiquette: > http://curl.haxx.se/mail/**etiquette.html<http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html> >
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