[9fans] Abaco's Plumbing

[9fans] Abaco's Plumbing

[Akshat Kumar]

In trying to access some papers in PDF,
locked up by secure login and what not
over the web two point oh-no, I was stuck
at the actual "access the paper" part.

After login, there is a link to a page that
forwards to the URL of the PDF. In order
to access, you need some cookies that
show you've logged in, etc.. So when I
open the link which forwards to the paper,
abaco tries to open the PDF link and gives
mime-type unsupported, of course.

Now, if I try to highlight and right-click that
link to open it in page(1), it doesn't appear,
because you can't just go directly to the link.
Sadly hget(1) doesn't do cookies so I can't
use the session to grab the paper without
abaco.

So, the only thing that I think could work
would be to have abaco plumb *.pdf as soon
as it gets the URL, instead of trying to show
it and ending up with mime-type unsupported.


Best,
ak

Re: [9fans] Abaco's Plumbing

[Federico G. Benavento]

hget does cookies, but it needs webcookies (hget, not abaco)
you can also use webfsget, which should just work

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Akshat Kumar
<akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
> In trying to access some papers in PDF,
> locked up by secure login and what not
> over the web two point oh-no, I was stuck
> at the actual "access the paper" part.
>
> After login, there is a link to a page that
> forwards to the URL of the PDF. In order
> to access, you need some cookies that
> show you've logged in, etc.. So when I
> open the link which forwards to the paper,
> abaco tries to open the PDF link and gives
> mime-type unsupported, of course.
>
> Now, if I try to highlight and right-click that
> link to open it in page(1), it doesn't appear,
> because you can't just go directly to the link.
> Sadly hget(1) doesn't do cookies so I can't
> use the session to grab the paper without
> abaco.
>
> So, the only thing that I think could work
> would be to have abaco plumb *.pdf as soon
> as it gets the URL, instead of trying to show
> it and ending up with mime-type unsupported.
>
>
> Best,
> ak
>
>



--
Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] Abaco's Plumbing

[erik quanstrom]

> So, the only thing that I think could work
> would be to have abaco plumb *.pdf as soon
> as it gets the URL, instead of trying to show
> it and ending up with mime-type unsupported.

why can't you just use webfsget?

- erik

Re: [9fans] Abaco's Plumbing

[Akshat Kumar]

> why can't you just use webfsget?
>
> - erik

Yes, webfsget works fine to grab
the file after I use abaco to log in.

I wasn't aware of such a thing as
webfsget. Apologies on my part
for the ignorance.


Thanks,
ak