Posted by Alvaro G. Vicario on 01/26/06 00:30

*** Darren escribió/wrote (24 Jan 2006 09:11:48 -0800):
> we're fully paid up and signed up to a password protected site, so this
> isn't hacking. In this site we can download a price list in CSV
> format.
>
> What I'd like to do is have a PHP script log into the site and download
> the CSV file so we can then display it on our website.

In this case I'd normally do a system() call and use wget (if available).
It takes care itself of all the dirty details.

wget --help

[...]

HTTP options:
--http-user=USER set http user to USER.
--http-passwd=PASS set http password to PASS.

If the site is not using HTTP authentication, though, you'd need to send
the login form data and probably create a cookie. The right tool is curl.

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