Hi Earl, Have you read the libCurl documentation for CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR? :
Pass a file name as char *, zero terminated. This will make libcurl write all internally known cookies to the specified file when curl_easy_cleanup(3)is called. If no cookies are known, no file will be created. Specify "-" to instead have the cookies written to stdout. Using this option also enables cookies for this session, so if you for example follow a location it will make matching cookies get sent accordingly. If the cookie jar file can't be created or written to (when the curl_easy_cleanup(3) is called), libcurl will not and cannot report an error for this. UsingCURLOPT_VERBOSE or CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION will get a warning to display, but that is the only visible feedback you get about this possibly lethal situation. So it may be that Rcurl doesn't call curl_easy_cleanup, no cookies are known (seems unlikely), or curl can't create the file (so try adding the verbose config) Hadley On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Earl Brown <ekbr...@k-state.edu> wrote: > R-helpers, > > When I use cURL in the Terminal: > > curl --cookie-jar cookie.txt --url "http://corpusdelespanol.org/x.asp"; > --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:16.0) > Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0" --location --include > > a cookie file "cookie.txt" is saved to my working directory. However, when I > try what I think is the equivalent command R with RCurl: > > ch <- getCurlHandle(followlocation = T, header = T, useragent = "Mozilla/5.0 > (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0") > getURL(url = "http://www.corpusdelespanol.org/x.asp";, cookiejar = > "cookie.txt", curl = ch) > > no cookie file is saved. > > What am I missing to reproduce in RCurl what I'm successfully doing in the > Terminal? > > Thank you for your time and help. Earl Brown > > ----- > Earl K. Brown, PhD > Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics > Advisor, TEFL MA Program > Department of Modern Languages > Kansas State University > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Chief Scientist, RStudio http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
