Wget HTTP download with authorization

By Haktan Suren, PhD
In Blog
Oct 18th, 2013
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Download files via wget that requires authentication (username and password)

wget --http-user username --http-password password http://www.domain.com

For more detail, use

wget --help

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Haktan Suren, PhD
- Webguru, Programmer, Web developer, and Father :)

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