RE: Wget and Yahoo login?
Micah Cowan wrote: The easiest way to do what you want may be to log in using your browser, and then tell Wget to use the cookies from your browser, using Given the frequency of the login and then download a file use case , it should probably be documented on the wiki. (Perhaps it already is. :-) Also, it would probably be helpful to have a shell script to automate this. Tony
Re: Wget and Yahoo login?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Lewis wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: The easiest way to do what you want may be to log in using your browser, and then tell Wget to use the cookies from your browser, using Given the frequency of the login and then download a file use case , it should probably be documented on the wiki. (Perhaps it already is. :-) Yeah, at http://wget.addictivecode.org/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#password-protected I think you missed the final sentence of my how-to: (I'm going to put this up on the Wgiki Faq now, at http://wget.addictivecode.org/FrequentlyAskedQuestions) :) (Back to you:) Also, it would probably be helpful to have a shell script to automate this. I filed the following issue some time ago: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?22561 The report is low on details; but I was envisioning something that would spew out forms and their fields, accept values for fields in one form, and invoke the appropriate Wget command to do the submission. I don't know if it could be _completely_ automated, since it's not 100% possible for the script to know which form fields are the ones it should be filling out. OTOH, there are some damn good heuristics that could be done: I imagine that the right form (in the event of more than one) can usually be guessed by seeing which one has a password-type input (assuming there's also only one of those). If that form has only one text-type input, then we've found the username field as well. Name-based heuristics (with pass, user, uname, login, etc) could also help. If someone wants to do this, that'd be terrific. Could probably reuse the existing HTML parser code from Wget. Otherwise, it'd probably be a while before I could get to it, since I've got higher priorities that have been languishing. Such a tool might also be an appropriate place to add FF3 sqllite cookies support. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIrb0s7M8hyUobTrERAlVXAJ9YnAM7JiQrxrB/KclA1FXDnoVswgCdGO7t Vaa98nhNRuEY4aLMx2BFXm0= =ScoA -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Upcoming Wget releases, issue reorganizations
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In Savannah, the name of the field value for Planned Release that was previously 1.13 has just been renamed 1.14, and a new 1.13 target has been added. I'll be moving some items currently targeted at 1.12 to 1.13, and some items that have just been moved to 1.14 will get moved to the new 1.13 target. If you have bookmarks to the 1.13 set of bugs in Savannah, that link now goes to 1.14. I've been very happy with the progress and improvements that have been made to Wget over the last several months. My own productivity, though, especially in the last couple of months, was somewhat less than I'd hoped it would be. In particular, taking on co-maintainer responsibilities with GNU Screen, and a brief hiatus to write GNU Teseq (a program to aid in debugging Screen), ate up quite a bit of time. I believe I'm close to stabilizing the balance between my work on Screen and my work on Wget, but I'm behind where I wanted to be. In the meantime, we've already got several really terrifically useful features in the current tree, whose release I'd prefer not to hold back longer than necessary. I may choose to punt some of the improvements I'd been planning on Content-Disposition funkiness and such, and code cleanup, and a bunch of small but not crucial fixes, and really anything else that looks like it might prevent us from releasing near the turn of the year. Steven Schweda's copyright assignment is in for his nice batch of changes for better VMS build-support and myriad FTP-related fixes; I need to sift through a lot of that to see what we can pull in as-is and what I want to adjust somewhat. I'm hoping to get as much of that in for 1.12 as possible - particularly the FTP adjustments, but may need to punt some of it, even important bugfix pieces, until after the 1.12 release. If that's the case, though, I will ensure that http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/schweda/vms/ is kept up-to-date with mainline, so that it will be essentially functional as a 1.12-plus-Schweda's-changes. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIrfU07M8hyUobTrERAhG7AJ9bv2Q0vetKEcDhfPz2CEQEt+2b3gCeP207 0pu6CNB0sWrsbZqDaWZ7ddA= =0ObC -END PGP SIGNATURE-
