It works.
As Nicolaas said, this is exactly what we were looking for.
Thank you.
> This might cross the line into full-blown crazy, but what about
> authenticating using curl and just nicking the session cookie?:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> # ugh.
> user="$1"
> pass="$2"
> url="$3"
> path="$4"
> out="$5"
>
> session=$(curl -s --cookie-jar - -H "Referer: ${url}/dev" \
> -F'sakaiauth:login=1' \
> -F"sakaiauth:un=$user" \
> -F"sakaiauth:pw=$pass" \
> "$url/system/sling/formlogin" 2>&1 \
> | grep sakai-trusted-authn | awk '{print $7}')
>
> wkhtmltopdf-amd64 --cookie 'sakai-trusted-authn' "$session"
> --use-xserver --no-stop-slow-scripts --javascript-delay 5000
> "${url}${path}" "$out"
>
>
> Running that with:
>
> ./script.sh admin admin 'http://localhost:8080' '/' oae.pdf
>
> seems to indicate I've been successfully logged in...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
> "Arno Declercq" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Erik,
>> Yes, I tried that already but unfortunately that doesn't seem to work.
>> So I'm looking for another way to set credentials. Thanks for your reply
>> though.
>>
>>> Arno,
>>> It looks like wkhtmltopdf supports authentication with the --username
>>> and --password flags.
>>> http://www.linuxcertif.com/man/1/wkhtmltopdf/
>>>
>>> Erik
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Arno Declercq <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm working on a Sakai document to PDF converter and I'm using
>>>> wkhtmltopdf
>>>> to do this. I'm running this from preview_processor.rb. It works if
>>>> the
>>>> document is public but I can't access it if it's private.
>>>> My question is:
>>>> How can I set credentials to grant wkhtmltopdf access to those pages?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Mark Triggs
> <[email protected]>
>
--
Kind regards,
Arno Declercq
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