Automated download of amember protected content

Discussion in 'Troubleshooting' started by r_ct_m, Aug 3, 2008.

  1. r_ct_m

    r_ct_m New Member

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    Hello,

    I am a subscriber to a site providing daily updates that utilizes amember to protect it's content.

    The site owner, being a specialist in another field, is happy for me to automate my downloads but isn't able to assist me in how I can accomplish this.

    Anyone know how I would do so?

    I prefered tool for such things is wget, logging into the site with firefox then telling wget to use firefox's cookies hasn't yielded success.

    :(
  2. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    Is it audio, video, or PDF content?
    Maybe you can convince the owner to put the contents up as a podcast? This requires using htpasswd to protect the content.

    David
  3. r_ct_m

    r_ct_m New Member

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    They're plaintext files.
  4. salem

    salem aMember Pro Customer

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    Is it possible to use htpasswd to protect just podcasts / feeds created with Wordpress (i.e. so someone with iTunes would have to put in credentials with ugly box) and protect all other Wordpress pages (etc.) with new_rewrite method to protect so when someone arrives at the site they are let in with the "normal" login prompts / cookies?

    Using htpasswd methodology, does a person have to login to iTunes each time?
  5. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    I think you need to use htpasswd for both. I dont see how you could protect just the feed, since its generated by wordpress- not in a real directory.

    David
  6. codeispoetry

    codeispoetry aMember Pro Customer

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    Hi eric,

    If I can understand your product delivery/distribution model better, perhaps i can help you. Drop me an email codeispoetry [at] amemberincremental.com.

    Lee

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