Re: file retrieval

Martijn Koster (m.koster@webcrawler.com)
Mon, 23 Sep 1996 10:19:01 -0700


At 10:18 AM 9/23/96, Eddie Rojas wrote:
>hi, I'm new to this list. And the reason I joined is becasue I need to
>automate a file retrieval process from a web site. This sites requires a
>login with a user name and password before the retrieval is allowed.

If you just want to retrieve a single file you don't need a robot.

It may be possible to somehow pass authorisation arguments to lynx -dump,
otherwise I recommend libwww-perl5 which comes with a program called
lwp-request which will allow this.

Check CPAN (via http://www.perl.com/) for the latest versions of
libwww-perl and the other bits and pieces it needs.

Hope this helps,

-- Martijn

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