[ale] using wget to get https sites?

[Jerry Z. Yu]

	curl supports cookie, POST (vs. GET), SSL certificate 
authentication, emulate a form submission, customized headers. By 
viewing the page source, the Yahoo login page has a form with more than 
id/pass fields. 
	wget's --http-user and --http-passwd pair is used for .htaccess 
type of authentication for HTTP, thus not suitable for this Yahoo login.


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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