Hi, thanks for the response :) Yes indeed, that was copy/paste error - the real tests have quoted urls :) Just ran them again now to make sure, one is definitely waaay slower than the other :(
Richard On 10 February 2011 18:33, Micah Cowan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/09/2011 04:15 AM, Richard van Katwijk wrote: > > I have two identical tests, differing only in that one sends the login > > credentials via --post-data and the other passing them in the url itself, > as > > per examples below: > > <snip> > > > GET: > > (/usr/bin/time -p /usr/bin/wget -q -p -O authentication_get.txt > > --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies cookies.txt > > > https://www.mysite.com/[email protected]&password=some_password) > > 2>&1 | /bin/grep real | /usr/bin/cut -d ' ' -f 2 > > Hopefully in your real command, you're actually quoting the URL(thus > avoiding the "specialness" of the & character), right? Otherwise, it > would appear your server is allowing you to log in without specifying > the password... > > -- > Micah J. Cowan > http://micah.cowan.name/ >
