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12-11-2009

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Not much to go on

You're trying to login so I realize you can't provide much detail but we don't know whether the page requires GET or POST method. The first method, GET, puts the information you supply into the URL. The second method, POST, puts the information into the header of the HTTP request.

If there's a login form on the web page you can look at the source HTML, find the form, see what method it uses, and what page it calls. Somewhere in the HTML something like the below code can be found unless there is also some crazy JavaScript going on.

Code:

<form method="POST" action="security_check">
<input type="text" name="username">
<input type="text" name="password"> 
<\form>

For the above page you would do something like...

Code:

wget -q --post-data 'username=happy&password=getin' 'http://xxx.xxxx.com/security_check'

A better way to find out what's happening exactly is to fire up WireShark, filter all HTTP transactions, login normally, and then look at the messages in WireShark.

Some pages are more of a pain than others. Some want the transactions to use SSL and some required cookies, that I've messed with. The worst pages were ones that did JavaScript page setup. I've never figured out how run the setup code from wget or curl on those type of pages.

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http::proxy::bodyfilter::htmltext

HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::htmltext(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		    HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::htmltext(3pm)

NAME

       HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::htmltext - A filter to transmogrify HTML text

SYNOPSIS

	   use HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::tags;
	   use HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::htmltext;

	   # could it be any simpler?
	   $proxy->push_filter(
	       mime	=> 'text/html',
	       response => HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::tags->new,
	       response => HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::htmltext->new(
		   sub { tr/a-zA-z/n-za-mN-ZA-M/ }
	       )
	   );

DESCRIPTION

       The HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::htmltext is a filter spawner that calls the callback of your choice on any HTML text (outside "<script>" and
       "<style>" tags, and entities).

       The subroutine should modify the content of $_ as it sees fit.  Simple, and terribly efficient.

METHODS

       The filter defines the following methods, called automatically:

       init()
	   Ensures that the filter is initialised with a CODE reference.

       begin()
	   Per page parser initialisation.

       filter()
	   A simple HTML parser that runs the given callback on the text contained in the HTML data. Please look at
	   HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::htmlparser if you need something more elaborate.

SEE ALSO

       HTTP::Proxy, HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter, HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::htmlparser.

AUTHOR

       Philippe "BooK" Bruhat, <book@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2003-2005, Philippe Bruhat.

LICENSE

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.12.4							    2011-07-03				    HTTP::Proxy::BodyFilter::htmltext(3pm)