[htdig-dev] Re: [htdig] Using cookies

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Adam Brown:
> The site I am indexing uses cookies for authorisation. I am guessing I will 
> need to write a wrapper to htdig to log in to the site with the appropriate 
> user name and password and then store the cookie data in Htdig somewhere so 
> that it is authorised to browse the site. 
> 
> How do I do this or could someone please point me to the appropriate 
> documentation.

I don't know if you noticed, but Gabriele posted a patch to 3.1.6
yesterday that adds cookie support.  It hasn't made it onto the patch
archives yet, but no doubt it will soon (right, Joe?), so you can look
for it there if you can't find it on the htdig-dev mailing list archives.
It seems to be a backport of the cookie support in 3.2.0b4.  So, whether
you use a recent snapshot of 3.2.0b4, or use 3.1.6 with Gabriele's patch,
you should be able to get cookie support going with htdig.

How you'd use that for authorisation may be another matter, though.
I don't know if Gabriele's cookie support has a way of pre-loading cookies
from another browser into htdig's cookie jar.  Care to comment, Gabriele?
(Or anyone else for that matter?)

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)