Issues for wget
Step 1. Use Firebug to identify
- form field names (e.g. user/name/password).
- Hidden parameters
- The target script name
Step 2. cut-n-paste from http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html; Section –post-file=…
Procedure
# Log in to the server. This can be done only once. wget --save-cookies cookies.txt --no-check-certificate --post-data 'user=foo&password=bar' http://server.com/auth.php
# Now grab the page or pages we care about. wget --load-cookies cookies.txt -np -r -p http://server.com/interesting/article.php