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bigal_nz

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#153760 7-Oct-2014 07:12

Hi All,

I need to find a way to progmatically and regularly (probably via cron) upload a file to a website which requires a login.

I cant see any php or aspx - looks all like html from this end.

Any thoughts on how to do this, like what language etc?

Regards

-Al

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#1148841 7-Oct-2014 07:41

More details. Client, server, authentication type, file type. It's probably just a script doing basic auth, you can probably find something online.

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#1149030 7-Oct-2014 11:48

If you can only see the HTML side of things then a Javascript/greasemonkey might be what you need.
But like Timmmay said, more details please.

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#1149120 7-Oct-2014 13:23

You need CURL for that. But what kind of authentification there?
Is this http auth or sending some request to login and then receiving cookie?

Here example of curl upload command line:

curl -i -F name=test -F filedata=@localfile.jpg http://example.org/upload

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#1149377 7-Oct-2014 18:22

Sometimes you can use something like http://username:password@example.com/ to authenticate. Otherwise just a basic script that does the type of login required.

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#1149465 7-Oct-2014 20:16

You could try autoit if it can run on a windows machine. https://www.autoitscript.com
It can be scripted to open a browser, go to a web page log in and then fill out a form.

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#1149530 7-Oct-2014 21:31

If you want something php based you may be able to simple http://simpletest.org/en/download.html I have used it a few times to browse site and fill in forms.
It makes Php pretend to be a web browser interact with pages. I havent tried it to do uploads though.

I think the class has lots of other functionality but I havent used that.

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#1152103 12-Oct-2014 11:12

curl is what I need.

I have been trying with curl without much success.

Any curl experts here?

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#1152204 12-Oct-2014 14:33

Not an expert, but I think I could help.
So, if you need to login to system and then upload file, first question is what kind of login used on web site?
There could be http auth used and regular login/pass via post used by most sites.

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