[SGVLUG] Polling Web Sites

[BB Odenthal]

Here's a sample that I use with wget to fetch a secure URL.  AKA tcp-connect

wget --proxy=off -nv --http-user=foo --http-passwd=bar  -O admin.htm
--no-check-certificate https:/192.168.1.1/admin.htm

It will log into the site and download the admin.htm page to the local
directory without generating any status to STDOUT.

-bb

On Nov 14, 2007 5:47 PM, Charles Wyble <charles at thewybles.com> wrote:
> 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>
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> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:51:32
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> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Polling Web Sites
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> "Robert Leyva" <mrflash818 at geophile.net> writes:
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> > 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.
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> Yes!
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> 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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