Re: [Bug-wget] wget sms

[Micah Cowan]

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Arpad Bakos wrote:
> Hi I'd like to use http://www.google.co.uk/sendtophone?...le&gl=GB&hl=en
> as a pager. I know google stopped their free sms service. This website
> only sends a message about how to start using Google services to your
> mobile if you give them your number. So the idea is that if something
> happens in a program I would be notified via this service. 
> 
> I tried to use: 
> 
> wget -q --post-data="MYMOBILENUMBER" 
> https://www.google.co.uk/sendtophone...e&gl=GB&hl=enq
> 
> Unfortunately nothing happens.
> 
> Any suggestions? 

A mobile number is not a valid argument to --post-data, which expects
"key1=value1&key2=value2&..." syntax. In order to use it properly, you
have to take a look at the HTML form to deduce which fields (and even
which URL) to use.

There is a brief walkthrough for using --post-data at
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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