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Subject: Re: How to handle multiple forms authentication?
Author: Xavier Roche
Date: 10/10/2002 22:10
 
> I'm trying to mirror a site use form authentication. I 
used 
> the url capture and the mirroring works.
> 
> However, there are links to other pages which requires 
> authentication too. HTTrack fails to capture those, so I 
> did a url capture on those links, and add them to the url 
> download list.
> 
> From what I see, HTTrack makes a copy of the page with 
some 
> random numbers prepended. However, it doesn't converts 
the 
> links to the copied pages. I end up with multiple copies 
of 
> the site, where each one can only access one 
authenticated 
> page.
> 
> I understand this link conversion steps will make the 
post 
> processing much longer, but the mirroring would be 
> otherwise less perfect.

Err, I doubt the link conversion is the problem ; but 
multiple auths are generally really problematic (the cookie 
might be mangled in the middle of an operation, for example)
 
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