> > 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,

Please share.

> 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.

I don't see a difference between curl and wget, other than that curl is
restricted to this kind of scripting use (it can't sensibly retrieve
more than one page at once, which in this case doesn't matter), whereas
wget is more universally useful. If you couln't make it work with wget
then probably for some secondary reason, which also makes the opposite
case equally likely (wget works and curl doesn't) in any given case.

Volker

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