I need to curl data that is on a password protected site and I am
first trying to get by the login page so that I can store the cookies
which will allow me to get to the password protected data with a
second call to curl. The login webpage is

https://secure.ngx.com/sso/login

However when the submit button is clicked on the login page it posts a
hidden variable "lt" which changes every time the page reloads (so you
can't curl the login page once and parse it to find the value and then
post it the next time). You can see this by taking a look at the
source code of the page. I have tried a live HTTP replay ( a function
of the live http headers plugin for firefox) but the replay does not
successfully login because I think that the the new page has a
different value for "lt" while the replay is posting the old value.

I can not figure out how to get the value of 'lt' the first time I
curl the page so that I can post it along with the username, password,
and other necessary variables.

Max
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Received on 2010-02-03