Thursday, 20 January 2022

Re: Using Netsurf cookies with wget

On 20 Jan 2022 as I do recall,
cj wrote:

> In article <88ea7bad59.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>,
> Harriet Bazley <lists@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:
> > How can I use Netsurf's cookie file with wget to retrieve a web page
> > that is only accessible to logged-in users
>
> wget --help shows there are commands to send user names and passwords
> when downloading, ftping etc. Have you tried that?
>
I'm not sure how that would work, unless I fetched the log-in page
first? The stats page doesn't request a password - so far as I can
tell it just doesn't let you fetch it if the relevant browser cookie
isn't present.

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Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==

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