"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=foo&password=bar" https://mysecuresite.net/ > authenticate.php
It should be "--post-data", with two dashes. And you also have to take care to save the cookies using `--save-cookies' and load them using `--load-cookies'. In CVS Wget you can also add `--save-session-cookies' to make sure the session cookies also get saved.
