[plug] Redirecting Web Data

[Leon Brooks]

Mike from West Australia wrote:
> Question: Is there a way to handle username/passwords with a preset
> number of retries (rather more then 3).

> In one particular case there is password protected site which has
> an exceptionally long user name and password and frequently has
> errors in recognising the access request. I've considered patching
> lynx to do this but, wonder if there is another way...

#!/bin/sh
for tries in 5 4 3 2 1 0; do
	lynx -dump -auth=username:password >cachefile.txt
	last=$tries
	if ! grep -q 'text only seen on success' cachefile.txt; then
		break;
	fi
done
if [ $last = 0 ]; then
	echo "EEEEEeeeeeeaaaarrrgghhh!!!"
	exit 1
fi
exit 0

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