Some sites require a user to login or authenticate before a file could be downloaded. To do so with wget, make use of the –post-data and –save-cookies arguments as described here. We first have to view the source of the html file, determine the name of the variables to post, and pass these information onto… Read more »
I wanted to restrict access to a directory on my web server. It’s quite easy by adding an Authentication directive in the site’s configuration file (in /etc/apache2/sites-available/; preferred) or in a .htaccess file in the directory itself. Create the user and password: htpasswd -c /path/to/my/specified/password/file user.name ## place file to a place that is not… Read more »