Re: Set Cookie for htDig?

[Ed Pastore <EPastore@xxxxxxxx>]

> Looking at the htDig docs it seems that you can specify an HTTP username &
> password (realm type thing) for the digger to send when getting pages - is
> this what you meant by a Lasso-authenticated pw?

Not exactly. The Lasso-authentication works off a FileMaker database, and is
being implemented explicitly because we don't want to use realms. Realms use
a browser-generated dialog, and we wanted the log-in to be form-based.
 
> No mention of cookies though, but if you must have that I would be surprised
> if there is not a modified version of htDig available, because it's just a
> matter of sending an extra line of HTTP request with the cookie info in it.
> But if there is such a thing, would it be compatible with WT?

That's what I was thinking. I did just find this in the documentation for
the WT-bundled htDig. In the "to do list," one of the last items is:
>Support for browser cookies and a browser cache

See the docs here:
http://www.ascp.com/htdig/doc/TODO.html

Unfortunately, I then found the same document on the live htDig list:
http://www.htdig.org/TODO.html
and it still has that same bullet item.

So I guess if there's any answer, it'd be in the htDig list server, but it
doesn't look good.

But maybe I could get a new search engine. Does anyone know of one that does
support cookies?