Martin Carpenter wrote: > We would like to use wget against a SiteMinder (Computer Associates) > protected website which uses basic authentication. SiteMinder sends a > cookie in the 401 response to the initial request, but wget steadfastly > ignores this (even with --keep-session-cookies and --save-cookies), does > not save it and does not send it back in the next request (with the > authentication credentials). SiteMinder consequently denies the logon. > This makes me sad.
This has been fixed in the latest development sources (which, however, have a bigger set of requirements for building than the released sources; see http://wget.addictivecode.org/RepositoryAccess if you feel adventurous). The changeset is at http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/mainline/rev/860daf826a6c -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq http://micah.cowan.name/
