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

[Joe R. J. <jj...@cl...>]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Gilles Detillieux wrote:

> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:50:49 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Gilles Detillieux <gr...@sc...>
> To: ad...@fr...
> Cc: htd...@li..., htd...@li...
> Subject: [htdig-dev] Re: [htdig] Using cookies
> 
> 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?)

Thank you Gilles for the reminder.  I saved it yesterday to cookies.gz.0
file, but then I got caught up with a flood of work, and forgot to move it
to the patch site;(  It's now in:

	ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/htdig-patches/3.1.6/cookies.gz.0

Regards,

Joe
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