Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Using CURL to get secure website information.

Create cookie jar for the URL login

curl -k --cookie-jar cjar --output /dev/null \
https://IPADDR/login

Passing the login credits to the site for fetching the information.
curl -k --cookie cjar --cookie-jar cjar \
--data 'username=USERNAME' \
--data 'password=PWD' \
--data 'form=login' \
--data 'action:Login=Login' \
--location \
--output /tmp/loginresutl.html \
https://IPADDR/login

Get the Secure Ironport information using the curl command using the cookie jar.
curl -l --cookie cjar \
--output /tmp/ironport_system_status.html \
https://IPADDR/monitor/reports/system_status