Logging into asp form in BASH... help needed

[arabicabean]

Hi. I am trying to access a website with which I am registered to, and the script that I want to develop will download certain pages from the site. All is fine except that I am having issues with logging into the site via BASH. I've tried wget, with the --user and --pass options but they don't seem to work. Here's what I know about the login page...

It's written in ASP
the field names that I want to populate are textLogin and Password1
The code of the form is below.

<form method="post" action="Login.asp?Redirect=gpro.asp" ID="Form1">

Any pointers to help me out will be greatly appreciated.

[AdmiralBeotch]

get the firefox plugin "http live headers" and watch the login process via a browser.

Then use curl with --headers option to simulate the request from the command line. It could turn out to be easy, or it could be a bit more complex due to session variables that must be persistent across GET/POSTs.

[storbeck]

I wrote a similar script in Perl which you might find easier. You can use WWW:Mechanize
Note: I had to use frames in mine, but that can easily be taken out

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use WWW::Mechanize::Frames;
use HTTP::Cookies;
my $outfile = "out.htm";
my $url = "http://www.website.com";
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Frames->new();
$mech->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new());
my $username = "username";
my $password = "password";
$mech->get($url);
$mech->form_name('form_login_name');
$mech->field(USER => $username);
$mech->field(PASSWORD => $password);
$mech->click();