problem with curl passing arguments

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#1

Hi all,

Here is my script:

tell application "Finder"
	set jobnum to "12345"
	set imageVersion to "3"
	set curlURL to "curl [url=http://www.mysite.com/changestatus.taf?j=]http://www.mysite.com/changestatus.taf?j="[/url] & jobnum & "&v=" & imageVersion
	do shell script curlURL
end tell

Seems to work fine, except that the imageVersion argument is not being passed to my web server.

What I want to web server to receive is this:
http://www.mysite.com/changestatus.taf?j=12345&v=3

But, apparently, the web server is receiving something like this:
http://www.mysite.com/changestatus.taf?j=12345

If I use “open location” to pass the URL, everything works fine, but this script will be running on a black box machine, so I don’t want to keep opening and closing browser windows if I don’t have to.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for your help.

#2

First, your don’t need the Finder to do a shell script. Second, you could try using the quoted form of the URL.

set jobnum to "12345"
set imageVersion to "3"
get quoted form of ("http://www.mysite.com/changestatus.taf?j=" & jobnum & "&v=" & imageVersion)
do shell script "curl " & result
#3

I’m having this issue at the moment as well. There seems to be a problem with curl escaping the amperstand (&).

WIth it (&), script editor hangs while calling curl. with the quoted form, it just gets the wrong page. any other idea s of how to escape “&” in a constructed URL without using quoted form of?

Thanks.


property tmbase : "http://www.ticketmaster.com/find_area?area="
property tmsuff : "&Submit=Go"
property acity : "new+york"

set theURL to (tmbase & acity & tmsuff)
-- above will cause curl to hang script editor
set the_quoted_URL to quoted form of (tmbase & acity & tmsuff)
-- above will get the wrong page
set thesearch to "summary=\"Hot Tickets\""
-- resulting page (r) should contain < summary="Hot Tickets" > 
set r to do shell script ("curl " & the_quoted_URL)

if r contains thesearch then
	log "Success"
else
	log "Failure"
end if

open location theURL -- this is correct page
#4

When I visit this directly.

. I get redirected to the Ticketmaster home page. This is probably because the website is not getting all the information it expects or that particular URL not longer exists.

#5

Yes, the URL is resolved to the Ticketmaster home page. But at least for me the page contents properly shows the information for “new york”. Try any other area (city with + instead of space) and it should work too. for example:

http://www.ticketmaster.com/find_area?area=detroit&Submit=Go

(note this only works for unique cities – still checking out a way to deal with non-unique ones)

But as far as the quoting issue above, I believe it still stands. Thanks.