[ale] using wget to get https sites?
Jerry Z. Yu
z.yu at voicecom.com
Sat Aug 24 00:07:10 EDT 2002
if you need to do authentication/cookie and stuff, curl is a much
better alternative.
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
#Has anyone ever used wget to pull down an SSL page? I've compiled wget
#w/ SSL support and it should be trivial from here to pull down
#bank/yahoo finance info at this point, but I seem to be stuck. Has
#anyone done this? I just want to get my bank info and some data from my
#yahoo finance accounts (both are https://). When I try:
#
#wget https://bills.secure.yahoo.com/bpp?.force=0
#--http-user=christopher_bergeron --http-passwd=mypasswordgoeshere -O
#filename.html
#
#and then load filename.html I get the login page. Is there something
#I'm doing wrong? Does anyone have a better solution maybe?
#
#THanks in advance,
#CB
#
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