[Web4lib] http batch downloader that will submit cookies and post data

Galen Charlton gmcharlt at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 07:58:24 EDT 2009


Hi,

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:50 AM, John
Fitzgibbon<jfitzgibbon at galwaylibrary.ie> wrote:
> This will not work if the site requires a cookie to be submitted each time. None of the downloaders I have tried will submit a cookie. Is there a downloader that will do this?

If you have access to a Unix environment such as Linux or Cygwin, both
wget [1] and curl [2] have the ability to store and submit cookies.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
[2] http://curl.haxx.se/

Regards,

Galen
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