Parsing of links from authenticated HTTPS page

[agntsgotnosecret]

Hello,

I am attempting to write a shell script that accesses a web page with a specified log-in and parses said page for download links to installation packages. Can anyone advise on the possible (and best) ways to go about this? Perl? wget? curl? I haven't been able to find any clear-cut documentation so far concerning the aforementioned -- if anyone has some favorite tutorials on parsing web data that would also be useful.

Thanks in advance!

[gooney0]

The big difference is the login. Can you login via get? Something like:

https://example.com?user=me&password=foo

I wouldn't think so though.

wget won't post data, so that leaves either curl or perl. Unless you're a perl guy I'd look into curl first as its much easier to use.

-Gooney0

[agntsgotnosecret]

I'm not exactly sure...

If it helps, the back-end link I'm trying to parse is the following:

[agntsgotnosecret]

https://dist.r1soft.com/s/?action=Do...leRelease=true

The actual log-in page is

https://dist.r1soft.com/download/

[gooney0]

Sure enough that requires POST. Try curl or perl.

-Gooney0