[wellylug] Please recommend a decent ISP. Not IHUG !

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <ODEKLFJBCKONDEJBPBNAEEMCCNAA.chris.harris at actrix.gen.nz>, "Chris Har
ris" writes:
>> That seems too fancy for me; I'd do something like:  [....]
>>     lynx -auth=$username:$password -dump \
>> 	"https://www.paradise.net.nz/cgi-bin/member/volume-detail" |
>> 	perl -pe '/Billing Period/ and $_ = <>, print, exit'
>
>very nice but:[....]
>so what have you done to your lynx to add https support ?

apt-get install lynx-ssl 

perhaps?  Presumably there are equivilents for other distros.  It's a
configure time option for lynx if you're building from source.

Michael's script could be quite handy, although I'd prefer to work out a
way that didn't involve sticking a password in plain text.  (Alas, it'd
be at best obscurity -- HTTP basic authentication requires, effectively,
plain text passwords.)

Ewen