i have exported a pair of cookies from firefox that are valid for the URL in question and tried accessing/downloading the protected content off that addr., but the end result is a return to the login page. i have tried doing about the same thing for 3 other websites with similiar outcome. any clues as to what might i be doing wrong?

the syntax i'm using: wget --load--cokies=FILE URL

DEBUG output created by Wget 1.12 on linux-gnu.

Stored cookie www.x.org -1 (ANY) / [expiry 1901-12-13 22:25:44] c_secure_login lz8xZQ%3D%3D

Stored cookie www.x.org -1 (ANY) / [expiry 1901-12-13 22:25:44] c_secure_pass 2fd4e1c67a2d28fced849ee1bb76e74a

Stored cookie www.x.org -1 (ANY) / [expiry 1901-12-13 22:25:44] c_secure_uid GZX4TDA%3D --2011-01-14 13:57:02-- www.x.org/download.php?id=397003 Resolving www.x.org... 1.1.1.1 Caching www.x.org => 1.1.1.1 Connecting to www.x.org|1.1.1.1|:80... connected. Created socket 5. Releasing 0x0943ef20 (new refcount 1).

---request begin--- GET /download.php?id=397003 HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Wget/1.12 (linux-gnu) Accept: / Host: www.x.org Connection: Keep-Alive

---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ---response begin--- HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:26:19 GMT Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny8 Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=5f2fd97103f8988554394f23c5897765; path=/ Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Location: www.x.org/login.php?returnto=download.php%3Fid%3D397003 Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 0 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html

---response end--- 302 Found

Stored cookie www.x.org -1 (ANY) / [expiry none] PHPSESSID 5f2fd97103f8988554394f23c5897765 Registered socket 5 for persistent reuse. Location: www.x.org/login.php?returnto=download.php%3Fid%3D397003 [following] Skipping 0 bytes of body: [] done. --2011-01-14 13:57:02-- www.x.org/login.php?returnto=download.php%3Fid%3D397003 Reusing existing connection to www.x.org:80. Reusing fd 5.

---request begin--- GET /login.php?returnto=download.php%3Fid%3D397003 HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Wget/1.12 (linux-gnu) Accept: / Host: www.x.org Connection: Keep-Alive Cookie: PHPSESSID=5f2fd97103f8988554394f23c5897765

---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ---response begin--- HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:26:20 GMT Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny8 Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 2171 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html

---response end--- 200 OK Length: 2171 (2.1K) [text/html] Saving to: `x.out'

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2011-01-14 13:57:02 (18.7 MB/s) - `x.out' saved [2171/2171]