[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I installed wwwoffle to get me through the day at work, where I have
> no Internet connection. I set up wwwoffle to fetch overnight and
> check out the stored pages almost as if I were surfing live.
>
> But two of the sites I most want to check--salon.com and
> nytimes.com--don't use simple http authentication. They want to check
> a browser's stash of cookies to ensure that I'm a subscriber.
>
> Is there a way to tell wwwoffle how to authenticate itself to these
> sites, and glean their content?
By default WWWOFFLE will make a request to the server that contains
all of the information that was in the request to WWWOFFLE. This
means that if the request to WWWOFFLE had a cookie in it then this
will get passed to the site. You need to make sure that the request
that is cached has a cookie by making the request after visiting the
site.
The cookie authentication will work by sending a cookie to the web
site with each request. There is no interrogation of the browser by
the server, if the browser fails to send a cookie you will be
redirected to the login page.
I don't see why WWWOFFLE would have a problem requesting these pages
if the following are true:
1) The server is not changing the cookie for each page that you visit.
2) You have not disabled cookies in WWWOFFLE.
3) Your browser knows the cookie to send to the site.
4) Your browser has cookies enabled.
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Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.8/user.html
