Re: [Bug-wget] download that require login/password form submit

[Micah Cowan]

Response below

Voytek Eymont wrote:
> I'm trying to follow the
> 
> http://wget.addictivecode.org/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#password-protected
> 
> info to wget login protected pages, but, not having much luck
> 
> the page has
> <form action="/main.htm" method="post" name="login_form" id="login_form">
> 
> I've listed every 'input' below, I've tried a variety of options, ending
> with:
> 
> wget
> --post-data='username=MYNAME&password=MYPASSWORD&_action_login=_login&_module=login&_template=login&_action=&_local_date='
> --save-cookies=my-cookies.txt
> --keep-session-cookies http://www.domain.tld/main.htm
> 
> 
> but, no go
> 
> I do get a session cookie generated as so:
> 
> # HTTP cookie file.
> # Generated by Wget on 2010-04-08 22:01:20.
> # Edit at your own risk.
> 
> www.domain.tld      FALSE   /       FALSE   0       PHPSESSID     
> f2040ad872a7e57c4af7d93a3369877e
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> <input type="Hidden" name="_action" value="">
> 
> <input type="Hidden" name="_local_date" value="">
> 
> <input type="text" AUTOCOMPLETE="OFF" id="username" name="username"
> value=""size="20" maxlength="80" class="text_inbox"
> onchange="if(value.toLowerCase) value=value.toLowerCase();" tabIndex="1">
> 
> <input type="password" AUTOCOMPLETE="OFF" id="password" name="password"
> size="20" maxlength="80" class="text_inbox" tabIndex="2">
> 
> <input class="sbttn" type="submit" name="_action_login"
> onClick="document.login_form._action.value='_login'; return
> LoginCheck(login_form);" value="Login >>>">
> 
> <input type="Hidden" name="_module" value="login">
> 
> <input type="Hidden" name="_template" value="login">
> 
> ------------------
> wget --version
> GNU Wget 1.10.2 (Red Hat modified)

It looks to me (from the JavaScript) like _action ought to have the
value "_login" (rather than empty), and _action_login should have the
value "Login". And be sure that your username is entered as lowercase,
as it looks like there's JavaScript to massage that.

-- 
Hope that helps,
Micah J. Cowan
http://micah.cowan.name/