Re: passing web authentication to background wget jobs?

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:33:11 -0000

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In comp.os.linux.misc LRW <deja@celticbear.com> suggested:
> I have a daily cron job that runs a script with the following:

> wget -0 - http://www.(myserver URL)/autoemail/automail.php &

> Now, I just applied .htaccess folder authentication on "autoemail". (I
> can't test it until the server restarts late tonight, because
> restarting the Web server in the middle of production is a BAAAD thing
> for us.)

Why do you want to restart apache for a simple change in
httpd.conf? You can reload it via 'apachectl' or perhaps your
init scripts offer something like this, without disturbing anything.

> In any case, I'm anticipating that now when that wget runs, it's going
> to be challenged with a user authentication. Is there a way to set it
> up to automatically get past it?

man wget
/-http-user 

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