[Haskell-cafe] suspected problem with network.curl version 1.3.5

[Michael Litchard]

Here's my code, I'm pretty sure I am doing this right. The problem
seems to be with method_POST. I tried to duplicate manually, but I'm
not sure I used command line curl correctly. Take a look at the output
below.

> import Network.Curl
> import System (getArgs)
> import Text.Regex.Posix

> -- | Standard options used for all requests. Uncomment the @CurlVerbose@
> -- option for lots of info on STDOUT.
> opts = [ CurlCookieJar "cookies" , CurlVerbose True ]

> -- | Additional options to simulate submitting the login form.
> loginOptions user pass =
>   CurlPostFields [ "login=" ++ user, "password=" ++ pass ] : method_POST

> main = withCurlDo $ do
>   -- Get username and password from command line arguments (will cause
>   -- pattern match failure if incorrect number of args provided).
>   [user, pass] <- getArgs

>   -- Initialize curl instance.
>   curl <- initialize
>   setopts curl opts

>   -- POST request to login.
>   r <- do_curl_ curl "https://github.com/login" (loginOptions user pass)
>     :: IO CurlResponse
>   if respCurlCode r /= CurlOK || respStatus r /= 200
>     then error $ "Failed to log in: "
>                ++ show (respCurlCode r) ++ " -- " ++ respStatusLine r
>     else do
>       -- GET request to fetch account page.
>       r <- do_curl_ curl ("https://github.com/session") method_GET
>         :: IO CurlResponse
>       if respCurlCode r /= CurlOK || respStatus r /= 200
>         then error $ "Failed to retrieve account page: "
>                    ++ show (respCurlCode r) ++ " -- " ++ respStatusLine r
>         else putStrLn $ extractToken $ respBody r
> -- | Extracts the token from GitHub account HTML page.
> extractToken body = head' "GitHub token not found" xs
>   where
>     head' msg l = if null l then error msg else head l
>     (_,_,_,xs)  = body =~ "github\\.token (.+)"
>                :: (String, String, String,[String])

* About to connect() to github.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 207.97.227.239... * connected
* Connected to github.com (207.97.227.239) port 443 (#0)
* found 142 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
*        server certificate verification SKIPPED
*        common name: *.github.com (matched)
*        server certificate expiration date OK
*        server certificate activation date OK
*        certificate public key: RSA
*        certificate version: #3
*        subject: O=*.github.com,OU=Domain Control Validated,CN=*.github.com
*        start date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:02:36 GMT
*        expire date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:02:36 GMT
*        issuer: C=US,ST=Arizona,L=Scottsdale,O=GoDaddy.com\,
Inc.,OU=http://certificates.godaddy.com/repository,CN=Go Daddy Secure
Certification Authority,serialNumber=07969287
*        compression: NULL
*        cipher: AES-128-CBC
*        MAC: SHA1
> GET /login HTTP/1.1
Host: github.com
Accept: */*
<snip>

See, the code set a GET, where I thought I was doing a POST

here is my attempt to do a POST manually, it failed but I'm not sure it's right.
curl --data "authenticity_token=BigAssToken&login=UserName&password=Password&commit=Log+in"
https://github.com/login > login_out

anyway, could someone try to replicate this problem?