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icon5.gif   Authentication problem with wget and links (text browser), posted by cowden on Wed Aug 8 21:23:59 2012 
    icon2.gif   Re: Authentication problem with wget and links (text browser), posted by Andreas Luedeke on Fri Aug 10 11:47:49 2012 
Message ID: 67307     Entry time: Fri Aug 10 11:47:49 2012     In reply to: 67306
Icon: Reply  Author: Andreas Luedeke  Author Email: andreas.luedeke@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.9.0-2411 
Subject: Re: Authentication problem with wget and links (text browser) 

cowden wrote:

Hello,

I'm not able to authenticate to a logbook using my text based browser links, so I've started investigating with wget hoping solving the problem one will lead to a solution for the other.  I've seen some examples on how to use wget to parse logbook entries in this forum, but my attempts keep returning the login page.  Any advice would be helpful and appreciated.  Here are a couple of the command line arguments I've tried:

wget --save-cookies cookie.txt --keep-session-cookies -d "http://hostname/LOGBOOK?unamee=YYY&upassword=XXX" -O elog.txt

wget --save-cookies cookie.txt --keep-session-cookies -d --post-data="redit=&uname=YYY&upassword=XXX&remember=1" -e robots=off "http://hostname/LOGBOOK" -O elog.txt

After these executions, my cookies.txt file remains empty.  Running subsequent command with "--load-cookies=cookies.txt" still points me to the login page.

Many Thanks,

Chris

I've just checked that 'wget --no-check-certificate --save-cookies cookie.txt --keep-session-cookies -d "https://elog-gfa.psi.ch/SLS?uname=uuu&upassword=ppp" -O elog.txt'

created a file cookie.txt. The file contains three lines of data if uname and upassword are a valid login, and it is empty (beside of three comment lines) if they are not a valid login (wrong user or wrong password).

Could it be related to the set-up of your particular logbook?

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