Content Tagged "wget"

TL;DR: wget has a mode capable of saving cookies. The other day I thought it'd be interesting to have a local copy of a confluence wiki, to avoid hitting the internet every time I needed a howto. So, I've tried curl first and failed (probably my fault really). So, after a few tries, I managed…

TL;DR: if you want to mirror a site where you need to authenticate, you need to do it in two steps. In the process of testing my app, I needed a mirror of the website I'm using. Since the website has authentication (via a form), the mirroring process has 2 parts. First part is to log in and get the…