[ale] OT: perl https download script?

[David Tomaschik]

Must it be perl?  Seems wget would be perfect for the situation.

Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Anyone have a script along these lines:
>
>   Log into https server with username/passwd
>   Read a page
>   Based on that page, download a file from that same site?
>
> I'm good at perl, but horrible with https/passwd, etc.  I could even do
> with python or something if someone has a well documented example but I
> haven't learned python, etc yet.
>
> Robert
>
>
> :wq!
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