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curl --sslv3 -d `cat credentials` https://www.mtgox.com/code/getFunds.php
{"usds":0.22,"btcs":39.74}
[ebuild] dev-libs/openssl-1.0.0d USE="zlib -bindist -gmp -kerberos -rfc3779 -sse2 -test"
[ebuild] net-misc/wget-1.12-r3 USE="debug ipv6 nls ssl -idn -ntlm -static"
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libtasn1-2.9-r1 USE="-doc"
[ebuild N ] net-libs/gnutls-2.10.5 USE="cxx nls zlib -bindist -doc -examples -guile -lzo -test"
[ebuild R ] net-misc/curl-7.21.4 USE="gnutls* ipv6 ssl static-libs* -ares -idn -kerberos -ldap -libssh2 -nss -test -threads"
curl -v -k -d `cat credentials` https://www.mtgox.com/code/getFunds.php
* About to connect() to www.mtgox.com port 443 (#0)
* Trying 69.64.54.59... connected
* Connected to www.mtgox.com (69.64.54.59) port 443 (#0)
* found 142 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
* gnutls_handshake() failed: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
* Closing connection #0
curl: (35) gnutls_handshake() failed: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
Setting --check-certificate (checkcertificate) to 0
Setting --proxy (useproxy) to 0
Setting --output-document (outputdocument) to -
Setting --post-data (postdata) to name=username&pass=password
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.12 on linux-gnu.
--2011-04-08 13:05:40-- https://mtgox.com/code/getFunds.php
Resolving mtgox.com... 69.64.54.59
Caching mtgox.com => 69.64.54.59
Connecting to mtgox.com|69.64.54.59|:443... connected.
Created socket 3.
Releasing 0x09a22868 (new refcount 1).
Initiating SSL handshake.
SSL handshake failed.
Closed fd 3
Unable to establish SSL connection.
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM|SOCK_NONBLOCK, IPPROTO_IP) = 3
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("10.3.5.9")}, 16) = 0
gettimeofday({1302256486, 388590}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLOUT}], 1, 0) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}])
send(3, "\325\327\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\3www\5mtgox\3com\0\0\1\0\1", 31, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 31
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, 5000) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}])
send(3, "\331\231\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\3www\5mtgox\3com\0\0\34\0\1", 31, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 31
gettimeofday({1302256486, 389446}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 4999) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}])
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [31]) = 0
recvfrom(3, "\331\231\200\204\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\3www\5mtgox\3com\0\0\34\0\1", 2048, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("10.3.5.9")}, [16]) = 31
gettimeofday({1302256486, 390649}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 4997) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}])
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [47]) = 0
recvfrom(3, "\325\327\201\200\0\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\3www\5mtgox\3com\0\0\1\0\1\300"..., 2017, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("10.3.5.9")}, [16]) = 47
close(3) = 0
time(NULL) = 1302256486
alarm(0) = 300
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {1803000, 314203809}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {1803000, 314352260}) = 0
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 3
setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, [1], 4) = 0
fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(443), sin_addr=inet_addr("69.64.54.59")}, 16) = -1 EINPROGRESS (Operation now in progress)
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {1803000, 315242561}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {1803000, 315361942}) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLOUT|POLLWRNORM}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT|POLLWRNORM}])
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {1803000, 423547755}) = 0
getsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, [0], [4]) = 0
getpeername(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(443), sin_addr=inet_addr("69.64.54.59")}, [16]) = 0
getsockname(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(51327), sin_addr=inet_addr("10.3.5.152")}, [16]) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {1803000, 423965800}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {1803000, 424148309}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {1803000, 424284143}) = 0
stat64("/dev/urandom", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0666, st_rdev=makedev(1, 9), ...}) = 0
open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY) = 4
read(4, "\205h\fg\212\306\271t\301Y[\25\20\".\201=\17\232\230s\315\3217]\272\340\7\266\207\265*"..., 1024) = 1024
close(4) = 0
open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK) = 4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0666, st_rdev=makedev(1, 9), ...}) = 0
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 10) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
read(4, "\272\353\325\367M\n\316\360\23}\204\321U\275\223\264\332P6Q7\27\300\247\20\321v\313P\360\344\361", 32) = 32
close(4) = 0
getuid32() = 0
time(NULL) = 1302256486
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {1803000, 427442199}) = 0
time(NULL) = 1302256486
brk(0x8b1c000) = 0x8b1c000
time(NULL) = 1302256486
write(3, "\26\3\1\0\340\1\0\0\334\3\1M\236\333f\372|\273Lw\373\7.\232&\1$\354<\303\273\241"..., 229) = 229
read(3, 0x8af36d8, 7) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)