Thread: Connecting With cURL To A Web-based Login

Although PPPoE is the simplest and the most flexible way anyone can connect to an ISP, there are many ISPs that require users to login using their Web interface. For that, there's hardly any automation that can be done except using a little known program called cURl. cURl is available for Linux, Windows and a whole lot of other OSes. You can down¬load it from. It is used to access sites using username and passwords, so it can be used to enter a user and password on your ISP's login page.



Unzip cURl in a suitable folder, and then open a command prompt window and browse to that location. You can use enter a command in a text file in Notepad and save it as a BAT file. All you need to know is the URl for your ISPs login page and obvi¬ously your username and password.

Create an entry - curl -d "username= &pass- word=Save the file and exit. The same entry can be entered in the command prompt. The BAT file can be run to login, or a batch file can be scheduled to start on startup, so you can have your connec¬tion turned on when the computer boots. I