Re: Login via php code on an external page

Andrea wrote:
It's a lot easier if you use wget, it supports sessions and cookies, you first
use wget to get the page to your local machine and then process the file in php.

Well...but how to login via wget???

I guess it's a normal form, password and login that is sent and that is usually done with a POST, so you will need to use the --post-data option, you may want to lie that you are using a browser, in that case you use --user-agent. For the session cookie you need to use the --save-cookies option

You use the wget once for the login and then once for fetching the page you wanted.

For further information, I suggest you take a look at the wget man page:
man wget

Simple example from the man page:

get --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data 'user=foo&password=bar' http://server.com/auth.php

wget --load-cookies cookies.txt -p http://server.com/interesting/article.php


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//Aho
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