robi sen wrote:

> Hi I have a client who basically needs to regularly grab content from
> part of their website and mirror or it and or save it so they can
> disseminate it as HTML on a CD.  The website though is written in
> ColdFusion as requires application level authentication which is just
> form vars passed to the system called login and one called password.
>
> Is there a way to do this with wget?  If not I suspect I can add to the
> applications security something that looks for the login and password in
> the URL then I could just make sure to append that to the URL that is
> given to wget.

Later versions of wget support posting of forms. Try: wget
http://www.yourclient.com/somepage.html --http-post="login=user&password=pw"

Tony

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