remote admdin - downloading

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:56:12PM -0500, Jason Shein wrote:
> Here is a question I have not been able to find the answer to.
> 
> Using ssh, is ther a way to download items from a site that uses php to 
> control their downloads? ( mambo, nuke, etc )

I have no idea how those things work.

> I unfortunately live in a rural area and am forced to use dial-up so 
> using an x-session over ssh is not feasable ( but I have done it in a 
> pinch )

Could be painful :)  What prevents you from running a graphical browser
locally connecting to the site possible using an ssh port forward?  No
point redirecting X when you could just redirect the data.

> wget is what I have used in the past for all my downloads but it does 
> not seem to handle php redirects.

wget should work fine if the redirects are done properly (headers only)
and not using some stupid meta tag or javascript call.

Lennart Sorensen
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