Hi,
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:30 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 20:15:22 +0530 > From: Mayuresh <[email protected]> > Subject: [PLUG] command line http authentication > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > My ISP uses http authentication. So user has to go to a certain https URL > and > login with username password etc. > > This forces me to use a browser to start my internet connection. > > Is there any way to do above https interaction using (say) a command line > tool - basically non interactively rather than command line vs gui? > > One reason to look for this is to generally avoid having to launch the > browser > just for authentication when you might not actually need it otherwise. > > Another, more compelling reason is, if you leave a large download > unattended > for hours and if the connection gets broken (let's bash ISP on some other > thread for that ;-) it does not get reconnected automatically. There is no > mechanism to keep retrying till the connection is re-established. (This > used > to happen so when I had a pppoe based connection.) start using torrents for ppp downloads e.g. azureus, bit torrent, utorrent they'll take care of link failure, power failure, stopping download in between etc.. > > Mayuresh. > > > Regards, Dnyanraj Nivas Mali +91 9823562238 http://dnyanrajmali.blogspot.com http://dnyanraj.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
