Automating Bookshare

[Steve Holmes]

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Hey thanks for the script; I forget how powerful lftp is sometimes.
However, I don't think this will work with Bookshare as they use what
looks like CGI links to invoke the downloaded items also, they use a
standard login form to get logged in.  I looked at the wget man page
and figured out a possible solution but it still doesn't work for me.
I have to runs of wget.  The first establishes the login or it is
supposed to.  It also saves cookies so they can be picked up with the
second pass of wget. The second pass tries to get the actual newspaper
issue.  The first pass appears to run dispite warnings about
certificate validation problems but the second pass still gives me an
error page claiming I wasn't logged in so for whatever reason, the
login sequence isn't working.  It obviously works when I do it
manually.

Now since lftp supports http, there might be something there for me;
I'll have to see what happens with the CGI link.  I obviously can't us
get/mget for this situation.  I'm curious as to how the Level Star
folks do it for the Icon.

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