Hari Sekhon wrote: > Ton Voon wrote: >> No cookies in check_http, I'm afraid. It would be a nightmare enhance >> it to hold sessions. >> >> If you are good with perl, look at WWW::Mechanize. This allows you to >> store cookies and interact with a website as if you were a browser. >> We use this to login to monitor a betting site and retrieve funds >> information. >> >> On 17 Aug 2006, at 12:18, Hari Sekhon wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I've got check_http doing a login which works fine and I'm using the >>> --onredirect=follow to make sure I can fetch the secured page it's >>> redirected to. >>> >>> The problem is that when the page is fetched it is fetched without the >>> previously supplied credentials and therefore I get a login page >>> instead >>> of the page within the secure area. >>> >>> I really really need to get the page in the secure area. Does anybody >>> know how to make it store and use the credentials for the redirect. >>> It's >>> obviously not using it's cookie and I've looked through the --help but >>> it makes not mention of cookies... >>> >> >> http://www.altinity.com >> T: +44 (0)870 787 9243 >> F: +44 (0)845 280 1725 >> Skype: tonvoon >> >> > > that's a real pain, but I understand. Curl can actually deal with > cookies so I may end up rustling up a quick script in bash with that, > I've already done some cli tests with it and it works nicely, but > longer term I think I'll have to brush up my perl (I know the very > basics) and do something with Mechanize. I think that this will be a > good opportunity for me to do something useful in Perl. > > Thanks for the pointer. > > Hari > >
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