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Fetch equivalent to wget

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    rountrey
    last edited by Sep 22, 2010, 11:24 AM

    I just switched over to pfSense from m0n0wall this past weekend and I am definitely seeing the advantages of doing so. But, I am having a problem with fetch. I use OpenDNS for content filtering (my hardware won't handle pfSense's) and I normally update with a wget cron job from a Linux box. I was trying to use fetch with pfSense but for the life of me couldn't figure out the syntax. I was wondering if anyone could help.

    the wget command:

    wget -O - -q –http-user=username --http-passwd=password https://updates.opendns.com/nic/update

    in return i get:
    good my.wan.add.ress#

    I've tried various things with fetch (with HTTP_AUTH) and all I ever got were errors. I am new to the BSD cli, normally using linux but I would really appreciate any help.

    Thanx

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      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
      last edited by Sep 22, 2010, 12:45 PM

      Should be:

      fetch -qo - https://username:pass@updates.opendns.com/nic/update
      

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        rountrey
        last edited by Sep 22, 2010, 1:17 PM

        Now I feel dumb, I thought I needed HTTP_AUTH somewhere.  Thank you, jimp.

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