On 01/23/2008 01:32 PM, Adam Douglas wrote:
> Hi Peter. Thanks for the reply and pointing this out as I did not see
> this information. However it appears after reading what you have pointed
> out that Swish-E only supports Basic Authentication correct? If so that
> would not work then that I know of, as in my case authentication is done
> via a web form and then handled server side using PHP/MySQL with the use
> of a cookie on the client side to maintain the client's session until
> logout.
> 
> Is there any other way? I do realize I could provide the username and
> password via the URL to the form, however this is dangerous and
> presently the form only accepts via POST not GET. I believe when a
> username and password is provided as query string this is treated as a
> GET.
> 

the way I would do it would be to use WWW::Mechanize (or even LWP::Agent) directly to POST
the user form, obtain the cookie, and then stick that cookie into the spider.pl request
cookie jar. There aren't any ready-made hooks in spider.pl to do that AFAIK, so you'd have
to hack spider.pl yourself (look at the authentication pieces in the code) or
ask/barter/plead with someone on this list to help you.

-- 
Peter Karman  .  peter(at)not-real.peknet.com  .  http://peknet.com/

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