🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: borland.public.cppbuilder.internet.web
Article #556

How to use TIdHTTP::Get() to get 'login-protected' website-contents (when knowing the user-name/password)?

#556
From: MR
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:09
28 lines
2123 bytes
Trying to get a content on a login-protected website with the IE I
first have to login (which perhaps stores the login-information in a
cookie) and the next time I access to this content I do not have to do
this any more.

Because this content is more than one page and I want to access to it
offline, I tried to get the same pages with TIdHTTP's Get()-methode
(hoping, because login-information is already stored in the cookie (or
somewhere else on my computer), I would get access to it without
providing any password information. But unfortunately I was wrong.

Comparing IE's source and TIdHTTP::Get()-result is also quite
different: In the first one is my login-information, in the second one
(when displayed with IE afterwards) quite the same page I get in IE if
I would have not provided my login-information.

So, how can I download the required pages. Can I use TIdHTTP::Get() at
all? Can I provide the Get()-command with some login/password
information. (The very best solution would be, if there would be a
property in TidHTTP, which would allow having access to IE's cookies
;-) )

Or can I perhaps call IE from inside my program and let it download
and store the required pages automatically?

Thanks a lot,

Michael
Technical Details
Message-ID: <ea9f22d43tn11hsanfouueqru7oo3lige6@4ax.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: feeec,3b4cf1b4db85efc1,start
X-Google-Attributes: gidfeeec,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
From: <MR>
Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.internet.web
Subject: How to use TIdHTTP::Get() to get 'login-protected' website-contents (when knowing the user-name/password)?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:09:30 +0200
Message-ID: <ea9f22d43tn11hsanfouueqru7oo3lige6@4ax.com>
X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 3.3/32.846
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.57.7.132
X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1143447029 84.57.7.132 (27 Mar 2006 00:10:29 -0700)
Lines: 28
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail