Need help with wget from a password-protected URL

Hi - I've been struggling to download data from a protected site. The man pages intruct me to use the --http-user=USER and --http-passwd=PASS options when issuinig the wget command to the URL. I get error messages when wget encounters special chars in the password. Is there a way to get around this

Re: Need help with wget from a password-protected URL

sounds like a shell issue. assuming you are on a nix, try 'pass' (so shell passed the weird chars literally. If you are on Windows, it's another story. On 11/10/07, Uma Shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > I've been struggling to download data from a protected site. The man pages > intruc

Re: Need help with wget from a password-protected URL

, 2007 12:48 AM Subject: Re: Need help with wget from a password-protected URL > sounds like a shell issue. assuming you are on a nix, try 'pass' (so > shell passed the weird chars literally. If you are on Windows, it's > another story. > > On 11/10/07, Uma Sha