[pca] The future of downloading patches

[Thomas Gouverneur]

Hi list,

I wanted to add my 2c to the community, but first, I have some question
for Don O'Malley or someone @Oracle that could possibly confirm...

After having red the great article that Don suggested
(http://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/useful_patch_related_downloads).

I wanted to apply this new kind of getting both patches and
informations on patches. Although, It was still an issue away: Login to
MOS portal.

Indeed, it's stated everywhere in this blog post "If you are logged on
to MOS, and have a valid support contract associated". So you need the
tiny MOS cookie before you can download anything using the "new way".

Don: I have reversed the Oracle SSO authentication to allow a python
script to login automatically and provide a cookies.txt file that could
be use with wget to gather patches/metadata without having to interact
with the MOS portal. 

Is there some legal issues for me to publish such code/explanation on
how I did that ? 

I know that from the past, there's always been an article at Sun itself
explaining how to automatize things. But starting from MOS... nothing..


What should I do ?

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