[SGVLUG] Polling Web Sites

[Charles Wyble]

Um... You don't need to worry about SSL as the tool handles that. And also logging in can be accomplished with post options to curl... 
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From: "John E. Kreznar" <jek at ininx.com>

Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:51:32 
To:"SGVLUG Discussion List." <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Polling Web Sites


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"Robert Leyva" <mrflash818 at geophile.net> writes:

> Once you know what the button is actually doing, you can then put
> that URL into wget, then run a shell script that goes to that URL,
> fetches the text, and then you can do processing on it, (grep?), to
> see if there are things of interest to you.

Yes!

Now, how to extend this to https URLs using SSL?  Recipes for talking
SSL are provided by wget(1) and curl(1), and expect(1) could be used.
But this approach seems difficult without first mastering the SSL
protocol.

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13

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