I'd like to login to the Forums part of community-server (e.g. http://forums.timesnapper.com/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=/forums/default.aspx) and then download a specific page and perform a regex (to see if there are any posts waiting for moderation). If there is, I'd like to send an email.
I'd like to do this from a Linux server.
Currently I know how to download a page (using e.g. wget) but have a problem logging in. Any bright idea how that works?
Looking at the source of the login page it appears to be an asp.net app so you'd need to probably do a couple things to achieve this -
Manage the form hidden __viewstate field and post that back when you submit the login details.
Once you get past that I'm guessing you can reference the specific page in question just using an absolute URL but you'd need to handle the ASP.NET Forms authentication cookie and send that as part of the GET request.