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[engunneer]

it sounds to me like you downloaded the linux version of the program (they typically have no file extension, hence the "empty" icon)

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.
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[HugoV]

No specific reason, just wondering

Not to complicat things, but have a look at this
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33506
as it might help with an all AHK solution (e.g. no need to
install curl, wget etc)

[Benny-D]

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'll try both ways and see which one is better.

So far, the only thing that I need is to be able to collect HTML codes of those pages (of a website) that I can only enter by providing my password , and I want to do it automatically - without openning pages by any web browser.

Anyway, thank you very much again.

[tank]

much as i like to try defer people to IE7 scripts
the curl aproach for your described need would be more versitile unless you never plan on using https sites

However if not https sites and you dont mind the learning and writing your own functions to extract what you need then yes by all means in the very end the link hugoV osted is the very best method of doing what you want
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[Benny-D]

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.

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[Benny-D]

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 with AHK -- such things like how to create your first AHK file and run it were explaind clearly and in detail in the Quick Tutorial of the AHK Help file.

[HugoV]

In the curl MANUAL, you will see on the first page a section DOWNLOAD TO A FILE which will get you started. Also you might need to check your firewall and allow curl internet access. Also note the link I provides does not allow you to access https sites, you would need the SSL version of curl (see the curl download page). The curl documentation is quite good, so read it a few times.

[Slanter]

This may seem a little off-topic at this point, but I promise, it may simplify things for the original aim of this script

Are you using firefox to log in to the website? UrlDownloadToFile uses IE, so in order for the cookies to be set to automatically log in, you would have to first log in using IE. Try doing this, if it doesn't work I apologize for wasting time, but if it does you won't even need to mess with cURL, you'll just have to re-login via IE every once in a while (like... once a year or something).
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[tank]

in almost all cases of a web form you can automate a log in by doing somethng like
http://www.mysite.com/path/filename.html?username=myname&password=mypass

username is replaced with the name atribute of the feild collecting the username
and the same is true of the password
another way to get all the feild names in a query string is to do this

parste the source manually for the form name
consider

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