[pca] The future of downloading patches

[dpecka]

you naughty hacker .. all you've done is logged now and your coffin is
ready ..

regards, d

On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 09:20 +0200, Thomas Gouverneur wrote:
> 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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Best Regards / S Pozdravem

Daniel Pecka
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