-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rajesh N wrote: > Hi Micah > > My apologies for approaching you directly as I did not find much help in the > net and documentation.
Hi Rajesh. In general, it's best to request help at the mailing list, [email protected]. You stand a better chance of getting help there (forwarding). > I've a SharePoint site with forms authentication. We have a web interface for > processing data and downloading the generated reports from here. Clients > would also like to download files using wget utility passing in the required > parameters for processing data. > > I'm not clear how to authenticate clients who send requests through wget. One > of the articles I referred suggested that wget doesn't support forms > authentication. > (http://dotnetslackers.com/ASP_NET/re-32648_Supporting_HTTP_Authentication_and_Forms_Authentication_in_a_Single_ASP_NET_Web_Site.aspx) > > Since my sharepoint site is on forms authentication,I have to authenticate > clients using their login. How do I retrieve the userid/password sent by wget > client and process that in IIS? How do I receive the request sent by wget? > > Any sample with asp.net would be useful. The information on this page may help you manage this: http://wget.addictivecode.org/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#password-protected - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAko6lrgACgkQ7M8hyUobTrGQvwCdFfBs/kVLQ/FE1W9ucIzXXC4H qeQAnAnEqvU+AoduJUAwQjPqULJMX1CN =rZyQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
