Hello,
..just subscribed and was unable to access the web-based
archive at http://fly.cc.fer.hr/archive/wget, so please
excuse me if this has already been discussed:
Would it make sense to add basic cookie support to wget?
Many sites nowadays use cookies rather than HTTP auth in
order to restrict content access to registered users.
Others require cookies to be accepted and returned even
without the need for user authentification (e.g. to facilitate
user tracking) and won't serve their content without.
So in order to download your favourite online newspaper
or resume that monster-huge http download that broke at
95% (with the -c option, because your browser is too stupid
to resume) using wget, it would need basic cookie support.
If a cookie file compatible to Netscape/Mozilla could be
specified on the command line, along with a switch that
governed whether incoming, outgoing or both directions
are allowed, you could simply use your existing
(browser-stored) cookies with wget.
Does anyone else see a need for this?
Regards,
--Andreas
