On Wed, 31 May 2006 13:20, you wrote: > On Wednesday 31 May 2006 13:11, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > May I suggest that you are using the wrong tool? > > > > wget is not really designed for multiple acticvity where state must be > > remembered between activities. > > > > Perhaps use a programmable browser like mechanoid/mechanize > > Or curl may be an in between solution. See the simple ihug usage > script[1] that was born on NZLUG for an quick example.
Yes, I wrote a bash script to retrieve my book borrowing details from the library, and had to use curl three times I think (one to get the session key, one to log in with my id, and one to fetch the list). I started with wget, but couldn't continue, so I was happy to find curl. A
