[AWS] "Post Timeout" result from AWS.Client.Post?

[Jacob Sparre Andersen]

Pascal Obry wrote:

>> I am working on a small tool, which sends two HTTP POST 
>> messages to a web server; the first to log in, and the 
>> second to fetch some data which only are available once I 
>> am logged in:
>
> Which AWS version are you using?

2.5~124785-1 in Debian/stable.

As an extra bit of information, here's my working Unix shell/Wget 
prototype for my Ada code, in case somebody can identify a trivial
misunderstanding in my conversion from Unix shell code to Ada:

#! /bin/sh
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#--  User name an password may be changed:

username='XXX'
password='XXX'

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

cd "$(dirname "$0")" || exit

if [ $# = 0 ]; then
    date_reference=yesterday
else
    date_reference="$1"
fi

date="$(date --date="${date_reference}" +"%Y-%m-%d")"
mlx_date="$(date --date="${date_reference}" +"%m/%d/%Y" | sed 's|^0||; s|/0|/|;')"

if [ -z "${date}" -o -z "${mlx_date}" ]; then
    echo "Bad date format.  Please use:" 1>&2
    echo "   $0 YYYY-MM-DD"              1>&2
    exit -1
fi

postdata='datevalue='${mlx_date}'&hdnAsofdate='${mlx_date}'&hidCuspID=&ColState=&hdnSrcApp=&hdnPortID=&hdnMthEndDate=&hdnViewState=&txtIndex=ERCT&txtFromDate='${mlx_date}'&SelOldNew=1&cboConfiguration=6840&cboFilter=0&iPage=&IndexVal=&Param1=&strWhere=&Param2=&SortVariable=&SortVariable1=&SortVariable2=&SortVariable3=&SortBy1=&SortBy2=&SortBy3=&SortString=&SortType=&Download=&OrderBy=&ConfigId=6840&CriteriaID=&NoOfConfig=&Source=1&ProfileName='

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#--  We never reuse login data more than one day old:

if [ -e cookies.txt ]; then
    touch --date=$(date --date=yesterday +%Y-%m-%d) timestamp

    if [ cookies.txt -ot timestamp ]; then
       rm -f timestamp cookies.txt
    else
       rm -f timestamp
    fi
fi

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

if [ ! -f cookies.txt ]; then
    wget --keep-session-cookies \
         --save-cookies=cookies.txt \
         --post-data='URL=/&hdnLoginFlag=1&TARGET=/_mem_bin/protected/entload.asp&REALMOID=&SMAUTHREASON=0&USER='"${username}"'&PASSWORD='"${password}" \
         --output-document=login_page.html \
         https://www.mlx.ml.com/siteminderagent/forms/login.fcc
fi

if [ ! -f data.${date}.csv ]; then
    wget --load-cookies=cookies.txt \
         --referer='http://www.mlx.ml.com/MLIndex/Bin/BondIndic.asp' \
         --post-data="${postdata}" \
         --output-document=data.${date}.csv \
         http://www.mlx.ml.com/MLIndex/Bin/downloadindex.asp
fi

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#--  Clean up:

rm -f login_page.html

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Greetings,

Jacob
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