On 9/12/07, Juhana Sadeharju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A forum has topics which are available only for members.
> How to use wget for downloading copy of the pages in that
> case? How to get the proper cookies and how to get wget to
> use them correctly? I use IE in PC/Windows and wget in
> a unix computer. I could use Lynx in the unix computer
> if needed.
>
> (PC/Windows has Firefox but I cannot install anything new.
> If Firefox has a downloader plugin suitable for forum
> downloading, that would be ok.)
>
> Juhana
Firefox stores a cookies.txt file in the profile directory. In
Windows, I believe this is located in "C:/Documents and
Settings/{username}/Application
Data/Mozilla/firefox/profiles/PROFILE/cookies.txt".
GNU Wget is compatible with this cookies file. Just use the
`--load-cookies file` option.
