wkhtmltopdf Log in to asp.net web app

Question

Having a problem with wkhtmltopdf. I\'m using it to take pdf snapshots of pages on a website that has a username/password page. When the .exe runs, I end up with a snapsho

Answer 1

I had a similar issue with my application that works on ASP.Net forms authentication. I had to pass in the authentication cookie like this to get it to work.

--cookie         

Important catch is that no additional cookie must be passed apart from auth cookie. Because some cookies with cause authentication to fail and even if it doesn't it will slow up the wkhtml process because wkhtml will have to process each cookie passed to it