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Re: cURL https

From: Kevin Carothers <kevindotcar_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:23:17 -0700

On 10/24/06, Rob Notwicz <rob.notwicz_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble using cURL to access pages behind a login for an https
> site. Does anyone have any advice/examples/etc?
>
> thanks,
> Rob
>

Over and above the example Dan sent you, can you be more specific?

Broadly speaking the best plan of attack I find for such a question is to
look at the HTML and mimick the form-submit for all variables and cookies.

A lot of sites obscure logins via a Flash interface now, which makes things
very difficult without sniffing tools.

KC
Received on 2006-10-24