clemensF wrote: > > Bob: > > > > would curl http://curl.haxx.se/ do the job? it handles cookies, even SSL.
Thanks so much. I installed the debian binary package of curl and it worked the first time. http://curl.haxx.se/download.html URL="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/120"; ANON="anonymous:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" curl -u $ANON -L --url $URL -O >From lynx's -trace (Lynx.trace file), I learned that one yahoo obstacle is a cookie used for authorization to get a messageURL. Also curl's -L switch is absolutely necessary to get over the ad page pseudoURL and a six "Aren't you supposed to be somewhere else?" messages in Lynx.trace. Yahoo is triggering an error condition in its own list browsing code, which if you join a yahoo group you can see if you go to groups.yahoo.com in browser and login. Even members who are logged in have to look at these ad pages which Lynx.trace reveals to be standard responses to an error condition. The way past the error page(the ad page), which in my haste I always thought of ;-) as an error page, is either to click the link to request the same url again, from lynx or any browser on the ad/error page, or use curl which keeps trying things when it gets the "Aren't you supposed to be somewhere else?" error--lynx retries six times, but curl finds a way and lynx doesn't. #Lynx.trace 6 times: "Aren't you supposed to be somewhere else?" Location: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/auth?done=%2Fgroup%2FAkhaWeeklyJournal%2Fmessage%2F120 Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain Aren't you supposed to be somewhere else? Server: Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) Cache-control: no-cache, no-cache="Set-Cookie", private Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT Pragma: no-cache Set-Cookie: G=v=6&data=c0NPVPvMlS5I_HO8VBzv2VJrmLI5t8pw5cOEg-Na73BzmSmYjydpsbCTqYQI1zP3OtqwZLKlulblDsoEETrfVl9rDfY5I7CUzEK-Tvis0tIfTG3KOcMFQpAOhoXHFAQcsFBxcYTyVQbSgNUEvzSyZfGoJPpsLfd8LvTSDOPMO5HKeYsPTznFHVoioTtVknKO59O93mnj4CcxadQKZgI6I08KmfrfPSMslGk2Ry7G9HXrHYl--3hcvuuQopZhCyI4zXDXSpATCP3ETqgf0ne8_Qd9SrKtL7M-cf7GloubvUYy3Bm5y2judTUJFxDBApGetrCfpx7Gk4_D_7tkqdJv32TB6EFgm5LAncYvOYxwm2NXBX4OQveBS-3t_bZ139675cn1t5KuN9qxbCWO_1LjfG3MoyYNkXLTGdfIFWFSvYARYmJZr1LBZdVejzU&n=17; path=/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal; domain=groups.yahoo.com Location: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/auth?check=G&done=%2Fgroup%2FAkhaWeeklyJournal%2Fmessage%2F120 Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain Aren't you supposed to be somewhere else? Location: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/message/120 Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain Aren't you supposed to be somewhere else? Server: Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) Cache-control: no-cache, no-cache="Set-Cookie", private Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT Pragma: no-cache Location: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/interrupt?st=1&ln=AkhaWeeklyJournal&h=120&m=1&done=%2Fgroup%2FAkhaWeeklyJournal%2Fmessage%2F120 Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain Aren't you supposed to be somewhere else? Content-Type: text/html Pragma: no-cache Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT Cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate, no-cache="Set-Cookie", private Server: Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) Cache-control: no-cache, no-cache="Set-Cookie", private Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT Pragma: no-cache Set-Cookie: interrupt=1&1017042077&120; path=/; domain=groups.yahoo.com Location: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/interrupt?st=2&ln=AkhaWeeklyJournal&m=1&done=%2Fgroup%2FAkhaWeeklyJournal%2Fmessage%2F120 Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain Aren't you supposed to be somewhere else? -Bob ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
