How do you get past an https login screen
(as opposed to a plain http (non-secure) one)?

I'm subscribed to the PGP users' mailing list
at https://lists.cryptorights.org/mailman/private/pgp-users/
and wanted to download the archives at this location so
that I could search them locally. I'm using ver 1.9 because
1.10 wouldn't compile for me, as I previously posted.

I tried
https://<my user 
name>:<password>@lists.cryptorights.org/mailman/private/pgp-users/
--something like
https://jdoe%40mydom.net:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mailman/private/pgp-users/
which didn't work -- all wget downloaded was the login screen, index.html

Using an idea from msg "Login string" Richard Emanilov Wed, 16 Mar 2005 
13:38:09 -0800
I tried 
wget --http-post="[EMAIL PROTECTED]&password=mypswd" -R gz -nv
https://jdoe%40mydom.net:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mailman/private/pgp-users/
Result:
wget: unrecognized option [EMAIL PROTECTED]&password=mypswd'

I read back in the list as far as msg "http authentication", Mathias Wittwer
Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:36:06 -0700, and tried:
wget --http-user=jdoe%40mydom.net --http-passwd=mypswd -R gz -nv
https://jdoe%40mydom.net:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mailman/private/pgp-users/
Screen output: 02:11:26 
URL:https://lists.cryptorights.org/mailman/private/pgp-users/ [1543] ->
"index.html.1" [1]
-all I got downloaded was index.html, the login screen

Last, I tried
wget --http-user=jdoe%40mydom.net --http-passwd=mypswd -R gz -nv
https://lists.cryptorights.org/mailman/private/pgp-users/
with the same result:
Screen output: 02:14:39 
URL:https://lists.cryptorights.org/mailman/private/pgp-users/ [1543] ->
"index.html.1" [1]
-again, all I got was index.html, the login screen.

-There was no --https-user and pswd setting, unfortunately.
Am I out of luck?

-James





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