John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The manual says it's possible, but I can't Logon to a secure site with
post-data.
I've been trying things like:
wget -post-data=username=foopassword=bar https://mysecuresite.net/
authenticate.php
It should be --post-data, with two dashes. And you
Hi John,
The server probably sends back a cookie when you log on. You need to
send that cookie back with your subsequent wgets. This doesn't happen
automatically. When you first run wget to logon, you need to give a
--save-cookies argument indicating a file where it should save the
cookies.