Internet Explorer syntax: Opening password-protected URL from command-line...

[Ichinisan]

I am going through a list of many files and downloading each one individually from an HTML server. Each time, a prompt appears asking for my username/password. I need to know how to open each URL from the command line with the name/password already specified.

I have already tried the following, which does not work:
iexplore.exe html://usernameassword@doman-or-ip-address/filename.ext

The "remember password" option from the prompt does not work because a new process is created each time my command is executed.

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

There is no way to do this... at least I don't think there is

 

[jonmullen]

Maybe there is someway you can do this with Mozilla

 

[awal]

Originally posted by: Ichinisan
I am going through a list of many files and downloading each one individually from an HTML server. Each time, a prompt appears asking for my username/password. I need to know how to open each URL from the command line with the name/password already specified.

I have already tried the following, which does not work:
iexplore.exe html://usernameassword@doman-or-ip-address/filename.ext

The "remember password" option from the prompt does not work because a new process is created each time my command is executed.

did you try this?
iexplore.exe http://usernameassword@doman-or-ip-address/filename.ext

i have done this in the past and it works for me...

 

[Ichinisan]

That's exactly what I had posted earlier...it does not work except with FTP sites...(different protocol)

 

[Buddha Bart]

you're just interested in downloading the file? not showing it in IE?

If so it sounds like "wget" is what you need. Traditionally its a *nix tool, but there are windows versions. Check out here and do a google search for "wget for windows"

bart

 

[stevewm]

Why try starting IE directly?

Let Windows do it!

From the command line try this: start http://usernameass@www.blah.com

The START command will cause whatever is the default browser to launch and then the URL will be passed to it.

 

[oLLie]

Originally posted by: Ichinisan
That's exactly what I had posted earlier...it does not work except with FTP sites...(different protocol)

Actually you typed html:// and he typed http://

 

[Ichinisan]

My mistake...(By the way, using the correct syntax doesn't work with the specific site)