On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:17:56 +0100
monideth dot pen at unitednetworks dot co dot uk wrote:

> I am using the following command:
> 
> wget --post-data 'Submit=Download' 
> https://<username>:<password>@<host_ip>/diag_backup.php -O  config.xml
>

Thanks Frederick,

It works fine me exactly the same way you wrote. (Debian / wget 1.9.x)
I have just copied over what you wrote and made some "version checking".
thanks for it
#############################
dir1="/var/backups/"
file1=`ls $dir1*_config.xml`
file2="m0n0_XXX_"`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`_config.xml
wget --post-data 'Submit=Download' https://username:secret@111.222.333.444/diag_backup.php -O 
$dir1$file2
cd $dir1
cmp $file1 $file2
if [ "$?" = "0" ];
    then
    rm $file2
    else
    rm $file1
fi
#############################


regards

Imre Ispanovits