Re: [Bug-wget] Problem loging to a web page with wget

[Micah Cowan]

On 07/05/2012 06:21 AM, Gargiulo Antonio (EURIS) wrote:
> I'm working with wget but I have a problem trying to authenticate to a
> login page.

I'm not 100% sure I understood your original message, but it sounds to
me like you're trying to use --http-user and --http-passwd to log into a
page that uses form-based authentication (where you type your username
and password into fields on the page), and not HTTP authentication
(where a dialog box usually pops up asking you for that information.

--http-user and --http-passwd are only meant for HTTP authentication.
For forms-based authentication, see:
http://wget.addictivecode.org/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#password-protected

Hope that helps.

-mjc