On May 27, 4:07 pm, Ryan Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:57 PM, steve <[email protected]> wrote: > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized > > Authorization failed. > > /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/crontab # > > > Im not sure what this is telling me accept perhaps ?? Im not > > authorized, (linux does tend to tell you the real reason, albiet not > > always straighforward.) > > It's telling you authorization failed.. as in you need to give it a > username and password. > > Check the man page: > $ man wget > > You should see descriptions for --user= and --password= options. > > Regarding CGI, that is just server-side processing. Unless you are > talking about POST form submissions, CGI's will work fine via wget. > For the more complex stuff you'll want to read up on curl. (man curl) > > ~Ryan > --http://rmgraham.blogspot.com
Thanks Yes I saw the user password thing. I will try that and see if it resolves it. Curl seems to be the new kid on the block, well OK for me anyway. Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
