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Thank you SOOO MUCH!!!

Finally, I can see cURL work!!! I did it by running an AHK file
(in the same folder where curl.exe is) containing that script that
you gave me ( Run, %comspec% /c curl -o t ...

I am sorry for being annoying, but I still have some problems here, which I couldn't
solve by myself.

Unzip that file and you will have a curl-7.18.2 FOLDER, open that folder and you will see cur ...

I would like now to thank those who gave me very good ideas
and valuable advice. Special thanks go to n-l-i-d, Mustang,
engunneer, HugoV, tank, and Slanter. At the moment I have
no lack in sugge ...

...there are some more advanced options available but it seems at your level it might be best to start this way

WOW!!! This is news to me. I never knew about the existence of this way.
I'll be s ...

... you'll just have to re-login via IE every once in a while (like... once a year or something).

As you have rightly noted, this was the original reason why I started this thread -
I knew how to ...

I get the feeling that I don't know the very basics of cURL -- I simply don't know how to run commands there -- and these basics are so basic, they are not even explained there.

It was much easier ...

If you want to use curl.exe place it in the same directory as your script and use the AHK run command and correct CURL
command line parameters (check the CURL manual for that
which can be found in t ...

Thanks for this remark. Sooner or later I'll have to move on to using https sites anyway; so I think I better take the cURL way.

WOW!!! HugoV, thank you so much for all the links. To tell you the truth, now I am perplexed - should I stick to AHK only or try to continue exploring cURL way? Both ways look quite luring. Perhaps, I ...

Unzip that file and you will have a May I ask: how old are you?

Thank you for your instructions. I am about to follow on them.

I am 34. Why are you asking? Is it because my questions are so s ...

It seems you are missing a few basic pieces of information that I and others were assuming you had. I can try to write up a how-to for installing libcurl, but I am not able to do so immediately.

It ...

... get one of the Win32 - Generic issues, unzip and in the
BIN directory you will find curl.exe which you need

I downoalded one of them and unzipped it -- actually, after the failure tried severa ...

Download libcurl.dll that's the only thing you need with the libcurl
example.

I have downloaded it and extracted it (the name of the file is ''curl_DLL_ONLY''). As a result I got two folders: one ...

... But my bet is that it might be a bit too complicated
for you (dll calls) you might try to regular curl (exe) with command
line options.

You are right, dll calls are still hard for me, so I w ...

did you download a windows binary for cURL?

I have downloaded ''curl and libcurl 7.18.2'', I don't know what ''binary'' means.