Posted by Ben C on 03/22/07 21:19

On 2007-03-22, jmacione@engr.uconn.edu <jmacione@engr.uconn.edu> wrote:
>
> for some websites, it seems you can login with the username and
> password in the URL through the post. Example, for yahoo.com, below,
> you can repace the username with your own and mypassword wtih your own
> and then you are automatically logged in.
>
> http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?login=username&passwd=mypassword&done=http://www.yahoo.com
>
> Im trying to do this now for other websites.
> gmail.com
> walgreens.com
>
> I could use some help if anyone knows how
> I cant get the post method to wrok for those sites.
> Ive also tried downloaded ethereal which I found by searching previous
> posts o n"post" and autologin but cant find how to get anyting
> substantial out of it which would help.

I use curl for this kind of thing http://curl.haxx.se/

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