[ale] OT: perl https download script?

[David Tomaschik]

Odd... Is it HTTP basic authentication, or something more complex?

David

Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Nope, wget, even specifying --user and --pass says "you must be logged
> in"...
>
> Thus spake David Tomaschik (ozone at webgroup.org):
>
>   
>> Must it be perl?  Seems wget would be perfect for the situation.
>>
>> Robert L. Harris wrote:
>>     
>>> Anyone have a script along these lines:
>>>
>>>   Log into https server with username/passwd
>>>   Read a page
>>>   Based on that page, download a file from that same site?
>>>
>>> I'm good at perl, but horrible with https/passwd, etc.  I could even do
>>> with python or something if someone has a well documented example but I
>>> haven't learned python, etc yet.
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
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