How to login to a website with WGET using the post method

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Does anybody know how to login to a website using wget? Every day I download a specific cartoon for which I have to login, and I figured this could be automated.

However, the website uses some kind of post method and I'm not familiair with those. See code below. Also, the webpage has a ".jsp" extension. Any thoughts on how to do this? Is it even possible?

Klavs · Guru Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 536 Location: Denmark

I don't know if Wget can do it - but you can script lynx to do it.

use the -post_data option (RTFM

and then -cmd_script to script what to select (ie. download/save/selected-name/quit).

Happy scripting and do post your results in the tips&tricks section when you get it working

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TRauMa · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2002 Posts: 43 Location: Germany

Have you already tried GET? Some pages also accept this though normaly using POST. just try to fetch a url with http://bla.blubb/page.jsp?action=login&userId=vert&pass=secret
and see if that works.
If not: I dont think wget can handle post requests, though memory may serve me wrong here.

PS: The jsp extension is for Java Server Pages, thats just the language they're using (like .php etc.), but this info won't help you, I think

vert · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 10:53 am Post subject:

I'll look into lynx, didn't know it supported scripting (yeah, i know, should rtfm :wink:

) The GET method didn't work (unfortunately)