[Bug-wget] Re: help with wget and asp.net forms authentication

[Micah Cowan]

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Rajesh N wrote:
> Hi Micah
> 
> My apologies for approaching you directly as I did not find much help in the 
> net and documentation.

Hi Rajesh. In general, it's best to request help at the mailing list,
address@hidden You stand a better chance of getting help there
(forwarding).

> I've a SharePoint site with forms authentication. We have a web interface for 
> processing data and downloading the generated reports from here. Clients 
> would also like to download files using wget utility passing in the required 
> parameters for processing data. 
> 
> I'm not clear how to authenticate clients who send requests through wget. One 
> of the articles I referred suggested that wget doesn't support forms 
> authentication. 
> (http://dotnetslackers.com/ASP_NET/re-32648_Supporting_HTTP_Authentication_and_Forms_Authentication_in_a_Single_ASP_NET_Web_Site.aspx)
> 
> Since my sharepoint site is on forms authentication,I have to authenticate 
> clients using their login. How do I retrieve the userid/password sent by wget 
> client and process that in IIS? How do I receive the request sent by wget?
> 
> Any sample with asp.net would be useful.

The information on this page may help you manage this:
http://wget.addictivecode.org/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#password-protected

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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