-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cody Woolaver wrote: > Hello, > > There is a community forum (running on the vBulletin board system) > that has a download section that i would like to retrieve all the > files from a section. Now, the only reason im doing this with wget and > not manually downloading them is because there is a minimum of 1 > minute between download times, meaning i would have to sit there and > manually download hundreds of files while waiting 1 minute in between > (that could take a while, also to note, none of the files are greater > than 100kb so it wont be abusing the bandwidth of the site). I tried > to retrieve the cookie file by using: > > wget --spider --save-cookies=/home/cody/Desktop/cookies.txt > --keep-session-cookies > --post-data='vb_login_username=user&vb_login_password=pass' > http://www.forurm.com/login.php?do=login > > All that, that creates is a file with the timestamps inside of it (not > saving the cookie information used to log into the forum). My plan was > to use that to retrieve the cookie, then use the --load-cookie > function in order to re-login.
Sounds great. Did you encounter some sort of problem, or otherwise have a (non-side-note) question? :) > On a side note, how well does wget handle urls that are formed like > downloads.php?do=file&id=###? When you go to that url it will then > prompt you to open/save the file. If you want Wget to respond by saving the filename according to the HTTP Content-Disposition header, you'll need to give the - --content-disposition option to Wget (version 1.11 and newer). - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk0XAAACgkQ7M8hyUobTrGRhQCggA8VwJtL3kyq8r+TBHN3wJn3 sQ8AoIrCgiuFVues+uK7PtEDxmFqtlhN =pive -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
