Re: [Bug-wget] Regarding wget to download webpage

[Ángel González]

On 20/01/12 12:00, Bhargavi N wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>   I am extremely thankful to all of you for the help regarding wget. 
> But still i am unable to get the right page downloaded.
>
> Requirement:
>  I need to run adhoc sql query on remote web page. ie; collabnet. The 
> webpage has text area where i can enter sql query and then click submit.
>
> Once i submit sql runs and results are displayed in the page.
> This REMOTE page is call to servlet ie; 
> https://collabnet.net/servlets/adhocquery for example.
>
> I want to pass SQL query as form data through POST/GET method and get 
> the sql results page downloaded to my local directory on LINUX box. I 
> am running wget on LINUX host on commandline / shell script.
>
> I will invoke wget with the URL 
> https://collabnet.net/servlets/adhocquery and formdata ie; SQL as 
> --post-data "select * from emp". Finally i want to download the sql 
> query results page to my local directory.
>
> I tried all the options that you suggested me, but still nable to get 
> the right page. Every time it is displaying me the index page for 
> collabnet, which i do not need. I need to run the servelet page with 
> the formdata passed to it.
What's the name of the field?
Supposing you entered that into a textbox called 'sqlquery', the 
post-data would look like:
--post-data "sqlquery=select%20*%20from%20emp".
(ie. name, '=', urlencoded query)