FW: [Web4lib] http batch downloader that will submit cookies and postdata

[Brown, Alan]

At 25 August 2009 12:58 Galen Charlton wrote:

> 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/
> 

Similarly, if you want to build one you could use LWP with perl, you can
get this with Activeperl for windows.

regards

Alan

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