Get Webpage Cookies

pradeepspa · 09-28-2017, 01:10 PM

Hello Folks,

I am trying to get a cookie of the webpage using wget. Below is the command I used,

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wget --save-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --post-data 'username=xxxx&password=xxxx' http://ip/ --no-check-certificate
--2017-09-28 18:06:28-- http://ip/

but this doesnt give me the right cookie value. I believe its not even login to the webpage. Could anyone guide me what am I missing in this please?

TB0ne · 09-28-2017, 01:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pradeepspa

Hello Folks,
I am trying to get a cookie of the webpage using wget. Below is the command I used,

Code:

wget --save-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --post-data 'username=xxxx&password=xxxx' http://ip/ --no-check-certificate
--2017-09-28 18:06:28-- http://ip/

but this doesnt give me the right cookie value. I believe its not even login to the webpage. Could anyone guide me what am I missing in this please?

Your other thread gives you good direction:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...se-4175613667/

cURL is used to log in..until you do that, nothing else is going to work.

pradeepspa · 09-28-2017, 02:16 PM

Thanks for responding. I tried curl call but it wasnt logging in.

Quote:

curl -k -L -v -u xxxx:xxxx https://xxxx/login.cgi

From the above command , I am getting the html of the index page but it couldnt login.

TB0ne · 09-28-2017, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pradeepspa

Thanks for responding. I tried curl call but it wasnt logging in.

Code:

curl -k -L -v -u xxxx:xxxx https://xxxx/login.cgi

From the above command , I am getting the html of the index page but it couldnt login.

Ok...so as you were told in your other thread and here, you need to research what's going on and why. Have you tried putting "how to login to website using curl" into Google??? Some of the very first hits have examples and explanations.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...ite-using-curl
https://superuser.com/questions/6408...x-command-line
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1837...gin-to-webpage

pradeepspa · 09-29-2017, 08:58 AM

Yes I did. Tried different curl calls as suggested in the forums/post but nothing seems to be working.

pradeepspa · 09-29-2017, 12:10 PM

One more thing. When I used below command,

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wget -v --no-check-certificate --no-cache --keep-session-cookies --save-headers --save-cookies /dev/stdout --post-data 'username=unbt&password=xxxx' https://xxxx/login.cgi
--2017-09-29 17:02:52-- https://xxxx/login.cgi
Connecting to 10.9.1.3:443... connected.

WARNING: cannot verify 10.9.1.3's certificate, issued by ‘/C=US/ST=CA/L=San Jose/O=Ubiquiti Networks Inc./OU=Technical Support/CN=UBNT/emailAddress=support@ubnt.com’:
Self-signed certificate encountered.
WARNING: certificate common name ‘UBNT’ doesn't match requested host name ‘xxxxx’.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘login.cgi’

[ <=> ] 3,621 --.-K/s in 0.08s

2017-09-29 17:02:53 (42.2 KB/s) - ‘login.cgi’ saved [3621]

# HTTP cookie file.
# Generated by Wget on 2017-09-29 17:02:53.
# Edit at your own risk.

x.x.x.x FALSE / FALSE 0 AIROS_SESSIONID 7bc8bab145c81e06d4f8c1f6319ee478

Looking into the index file the above command generated,

Quote:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="logintable" align="center">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center">
<div id="errmsg" class="error">
Invalid credentials.
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> </td>
</tr>

I see Invalid credentials error. I used the same username and password through browser where it works.Is there something wrong the way I pass the credentials?

TB0ne · 09-29-2017, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by pradeepspa

One more thing. When I used below command, Looking into the index file the above command generated,

I see Invalid credentials error. I used the same username and password through browser where it works.Is there something wrong the way I pass the credentials?

I suggest you, AGAIN, go back and look at the examples. What you're doing doesn't match..can't be more plain. You're not saving the cookie somewhere, you're not putting the URL into double-quotes, etc.

You were given numerous examples...we cannot force you to read them.

pradeepspa · 09-29-2017, 02:27 PM

Thanks for your guidance. I am doing my research and tried most of the examples suggested online. I thought someone would shed light on what I am missing. ANyways I will keep trying. Thanks for you effort.

Below is the modified command I am using incase you like to see.

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wget --no-check-certificate --auth-no-challenge --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies cookie104.txt --post-data="username=unbt&password=Xpl0rn3+" "https://10.9.1.3/login.cgi"

I know there are some mistakes in that command and that's the reason it doesnt work. I will try to figure that out.