Re: [Lynx-dev] Post_data, or, how can I automagically send a username/password to a site?

[Jude DaShiell]

I don't know if wput can help here, but wput is wget's brother and is for 
sending data to websites.On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, jeremy bentham wrote:

> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:44:58
> From: jeremy bentham <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Lynx-dev] Post_data, or,
>     how can I automagically send a username/password to a site?
>
> If this is in the documentation I didn't find it.
>
> I have an account at my local library, and for some purposes
> using lynx to access it instead of {firefox, ...} (the site makes
> _extensive_ use of javascript) would be a lot faster, if I could
> automate the account access.  I apparently don't understand
> -post_data, because typing
>
>  lynx -post_data <site>
>  username or barcode: <username>
>   (the name of the username field)
>  password: <password>
>  ---
>  <CR><CR>
>   (note the two returns)
>
> is, as far as I can tell, just a fancy way of typing
>
>  lynx -dump <site> .
>
> I have also tried -auth .

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