Here are linkw to two nice tutorials on curl and how to use curl to login before we try to fetch a page. Hope you find them useful.
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcgQUsorF_8

http://scriptasy.com/php_11/tutorial-curl-login_44.html

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