[ale] OT: perl https download script?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 19:31 -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> Nope, wget, even specifying --user and --pass says "you must be logged
> in"...

Hmm. Did you try tinkering with using --keep-session-cookies ?

Alternative: Login manually using the browser and then run wget with the
--load-cookies option pointed to your cookies.txt file.
> 
> Thus spake David Tomaschik (ozone at webgroup.org):
> 
> > Must it be perl?  Seems wget would be perfect for the situation.
> > 
> > Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > > Anyone have a script along these lines:
> > >
> > >   Log into https server with username/passwd
> > >   Read a page
> > >   Based on that page, download a file from that same site?
> > >
> > > I'm good at perl, but horrible with https/passwd, etc.  I could even do
> > > with python or something if someone has a well documented example but I
> > > haven't learned python, etc yet.
> > >
> > > Robert
> > >
> > >
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