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posting HTML req to RESTART ROUTER via terminal on CURL fails

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I read from this page how to restart the router using curl.

I got the command for my router

http://192.168.1.1/Forms/tools_system_1?restoreFlag=0&Restart=RESTART

It works when i put it in browser's address bar but when I use curl

curl -u admin:mypass 'http://192.168.1.1/Forms/tools_system_1?restoreFlag=0&Restart=RESTART'

It does not work.

no output is there in Terminal Screen.

EDIT

Result of --

curl -i -u admin:mypass 'http://192.168.1.1/Forms/tools_system_1?restoreFlag=0&Restart=RESTART'

gives this--

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="450TC1"

Content-Type: text/html

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Server: RomPager/4.07 UPnP/1.0

EXT:



<html>

<head>

<title>Protected Object</title></head><body>

<h1>Protected Object</h1>This object on the RomPager server is protected

Output of

curl --verbose -u admin:mypass 'http://192.168.1.1/Forms/tools_system_1?restoreFlag=0&Restart=RESTART'

Gives this --

* About to connect() to 192.168.1.1 port 80 (#0)

*   Trying 192.168.1.1... connected

* Server auth using Basic with user 'admin'

> GET /Forms/tools_system_1?restoreFlag=0&Restart=RESTART HTTP/1.1

> Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46c2hhcmluZ2FuMDA3

> User-Agent: curl/7.22.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3

> Host: 192.168.1.1

> Accept: */*

> 

< HTTP/1.1 303 See Other

< Location: http://192.168.1.1/progress.htm

< Content-Length: 0

< Server: RomPager/4.07 UPnP/1.0

< EXT:

< 

* Connection #0 to host 192.168.1.1 left intact

* Closing connection #0

But curl -u admin:mypass 192.168.1.1 returns this. Works fine!

<html>

<head>

<title>

</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=

iso-8859-1">

<meta http-equiv=Content-Script-Type content=text/javascript>

<meta http-equiv=Content-Style-Type content=text/css>

</head><frameset rows="65,75,*" framespacing="0" border="0" frameborder="0">

<frame name="header" noresize src="status.html" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

<frame name="navigation" noresize src="navigation-status.html" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

<frame name="main" noresize src="../status/status_deviceinfo.htm" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

</frameset><noframes>

</noframes>

</html>

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answered 1 Year ago thellfi · Accepted Answer

Stick to what works for you. Based on your now previous comment, it's possible there's some special character in your password; try wrapping your credentials in quotes, e.g. -u "admin:pass".

If Wget works, use it instead; you can use -O - switch to redirect output to console (similar to Curl's default behaviour), instead of saving the file.

Sending a data as POST request may also work, e.g.:

curl -u 'admin:mypass' --form 'restoreFlag=0&Restart=RESTART' 'http://192.168.1.1/Forms/tools_system_1'

Also notice that in your output, router returned different message for -i and --verbose flags—401 Unauthorized for -i and 303 See Other for --verbose. The latter, I assume, lead to a successful restart. I don't think that flags are related to router's behaviour, it seems to be completely random.

Anyway, I don't think this question is specific for Ubuntu in any way, I recommend asking at SuperUser.