On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Donald Allen wrote: > >> I am doing the yahoo session login with firefox, not with wget, so I'm > >> using the first and easier of your two suggested methods. I'm guessing > >> you are thinking that I'm trying to login to the yahoo session with > >> wget, and thus --keep-session-cookies and --save-cookies=<foo.txt> would > >> make perfect sense to me, but that's not what I'm doing (yet -- if I'm > >> right about what's happening here, I'm going to have to resort to this). > >> But using firefox to initiate the session, it looks to me like wget > >> never gets to see the session cookies because I don't think firefox > >> writes them to its cookie file (which actually makes sense -- if they > >> only need to live as long as the session, why write them out?). > > Yes, and I understood this; the thing is, that if session cookies are > involved (i.e., cookies that are marked for immediate expiration and are > not meant to be saved to the cookies file), then I don't see how you > have much choice other than to use the "harder" method, or else to fake > the session cookies by manually inserting them to your cookies file or > whatnot (not sure how well that may be expected to work). Or, yeah, add > an explicit --header 'Cookie: ...'. Ah, the misunderstanding was that the stuff you thought I missed was intended to push me in the direction of Plan B -- log in to yahoo with wget. I understand now. I'll look at trying to make this work. Thanks for all the help, though I can't guarantee that you are done yet :-) But, hopefully, this exchange will benefit others. /Don > > - -- > Micah J. Cowan > Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. > GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq > http://micah.cowan.name/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFIxrVD7M8hyUobTrERAt19AJ9bmmczCKjzMtGCoXb8B5g25uMLRQCeK8qh > M57W3Reqj+/pO8GuDwb9Nok= > =ajp/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
