LKBEN10937: wget download from a site with password and username.

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Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Symptom

Which parameters to use for downloading from a site with username and password authentification.

Cause

This is by design.

Solution

Use the following parameters to download from a http site with username and password.

 wget --http-user=username --http-password=mypassword 'http://www.somesite.com/protected/DVD.iso'

For ftp sites you can use the ftp-user and ftp-password parameters. 

About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux in different European countries and different European languages. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform where he is one of the most important contributors and the main developer.

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