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# 1  
Old 06-18-2011
Java Horde autologin with cron job
I have created a filter in cPanel Horde email account, but the filter only work when someone log into the inbox. May I know if I can setup a cron job so the system able to autologin to my cPanel Horde email account inbox? Anyone can help? Thanks, Sean
# 2  
Old 06-20-2011
Any expert can help me here?
# 3  
Old 06-20-2011
That would seem like a quite dodgy way to run an email filter, especially considering how http logins work; they can time out or expire and such. And even if you do manage to login with a commandline tool, there might be javascript scripts or something required for it to work which a commandline tool would be unable to perform.

If you really want to try it that way I suggest you take a look at wget, see its --post-data, --no-check-certificate, --save-cookie, and --save-session-cookies options. A better way would be to find out why this requires a login and fix it...
# 4  
Old 06-20-2011
HostGator support told me that Horde email filter will only work when login to the account. There's no option to make the filter work without user login.

I'm not expert in coding so not really understand what is "wget". :-)

Maybe can create PHP script to auto login with cron job?
# 5  
Old 06-20-2011
How to login to a website really depends on the website, it could be as simple as wget "http://usernameSmilieassword@host/login.php" or as complicated as something involving cookies and a URL obfuscated in javascript. I can't give you canned code that'll work for anything.

If you can attach the HTML code of your HORDE login page that'd help.
# 6  
Old 06-20-2011
Here's the horde login page:
Code:
http://mysoftwaredepot.com:2095/horde/index.php

The HTML code below:
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/cPanel_magic_revision_1265411766/unprotected/cpanel/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>cPanel&reg; 11</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/cPanel_magic_revision_1265411766/unprotected/cpanel/style_optimized.css" type="text/css" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />
</head>
 
<body>
<div id="wrap">
        <div id="top-mail"></div>
        <div id="mid">
                <div id="content-wrap" align="center">
<form action="/login/" method="post" >
    <input type="hidden" name="login_theme" value="cpanel" />
    <table width="200px" class="login" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr>
            <td align="left" colspan="2"><strong>Login</strong></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td class="login_lines">Email</td>
            <td class="login_lines"><input autofocus="autofocus" type="text" tabindex="1" id="user" name="user" size="16" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr class="row2">
            <td class="login_lines">Password&nbsp;</td>
            <td class="login_lines"><input type="password" tabindex="2" id="pass" name="pass" size="16" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2" style="text-align: center"><input type="submit" tabindex="3" id="login" value="Login" class="input-button" /></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    <input type="hidden" name="goto_uri" value="/horde/index.php" />
</form>
<script type="text/javascript"> 
//<![CDATA[
   document.getElementById("user").focus();
/* Must not include external javascript -jnk 06.20.09 */
//]]>
</script>
</div>
</div>
<div id="bot-mail">
</div>
&copy; cPanel, Inc. 2009
</div>
</body>
</html>

After login, we need to click on another button "Login" to access the inbox.

Hope you can help. :-)

Thanks,
Sean
# 7  
Old 06-20-2011
Then perhaps:

Code:
wget -U netscape --referer=http://mysoftwaredepot.com:2095 \
        --post-data="login_theme=cpanel&user=myusername&pass=mypassword&goto_uri=/horde/index.php" \
        http://mysoftwaredepot.com:2095/login/

username and password should be percent-encoded if they contain any strange characters. I'd suggest not putting it into cron until you have it working. It will save a webpage to disk, which if the login doesn't work may or may not tell you why. Once you have it working, add -O /dev/null to make it not save a file.
 
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