Re: [Lynx-dev] access/download password-protected pages

[Zachary Lee Andrews]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, Christian wrote:

> I did it this way:
>
> lynx -auth=Rosika:'my_password'
> "https://itsfoss.community/t/virt-rescue/5178/10";
>
> Despite providing my credentials I won´t get logged in.
> Lynx says: "HTTP/1.1 404 not found"
> And the site itself says: "Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private."

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the -auth flag in lynx used to
send the HTTP Authorization header with BASIC or DIGEST authentication?

The site in question looks looks like it using a post <FORM>...
So the solution would probably involve -post_data

Good Luck,
Zachary L. Andrews
<zcrayfish@gmail.com>