wget and curl tips

Imagine you want to download all files under http://www.example.com/2013/downloads, and not files under http://www.example.com/2013 except for directory 'downloads', then you can do this:

wget -r --level 100 -nd --no-proxy --no-parent --reject "index.htm*" --reject "*gif" 'http://www.example.com/2013/downloads/' #--level 100 is large enough, as I've seen no site has more than 100 levels of sub-directories so far.

wget -p -k --no-proxy --no-check-certificate --post-data 'id=username&passwd=password' <url> -O output.html

wget --no-proxy --no-check-certificate --save-cookies cookies.txt <url>

wget --no-proxy --no-check-certificate --load-cookies cookies.txt <url>

curl -k -u 'username:password' <url>

curl -k -L -d id=username -d passwd=password <url>

curl --data "loginform:id=username&loginform:passwd=password" -k -L <url>

curl -i -u username:password -H X-Oracle-UserId:myname@example.com -H X-Oracle-IdentityDomain:domainname -X GET "https://login.example.com:443/api/v1/users?userLogin"

Here's one curl example to get SSL certs info on LTM:

#!/bin/bash
path="/var/tmp"
path_root="/var/tmp"

agent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; InfoPath.2)"

curl -v -L -k -A "$agent" -c ${path}/cookie "https://ltm-url/tmui/login.jsp?msgcode=1&"

curl -v -L -k -A "$agent" -b ${path}/cookie -c ${path}/cookie -e "https://ltm-url/tmui/login.jsp?msgcode=1&" -d "username=myusername&passwd=mypassword" "https://ltm-url/tmui/logmein.html?msgcode=1&"

curl -v -L -k -A "$agent" -b ${path}/cookie -c ${path}/cookie -o ${path_root}/certs-env.html "https://ltm-url/tmui/Control/jspmap/tmui/locallb/ssl_certificate/list.jsp?&startListIndex=0&showAll=true"

Now you can have a check of /var/tmp/certs-env.html for SSL certs info of Big IP VIPs.

PS:

To use private CA/public cert/private key, you should use below in curl:

curl -v --cacert your-root-ca.crt --cert your-public-cert.crt --key your-private.key --pass mypass -u "username:password" https://url

In this command, your-public-cert.crt is the public cert that you have trusted,your-private.key is the private RSA key portion of the cert that is used to sign the request, and “username:password” should be replaced with the correct username and password.

Also, if you’re using an intermediate cert, you can provide it in one command like so:

curl -v --cacert your-root-ca.crt --cert <(cat your-public-cert.crt  intermediate.crt ) --key your-private.key --pass mypass -u “username:password" https://url