provide credentials to the link using script

Hello ,

I have a link

after clicking on this link it askes me for usename and password

when i submit those credentials latest.zip gets downloaded.

I want to do all this using php script.

I wanteed to set a cron for this.
and file should be downloaded at my sever.

what should i do?
curl or socekt programming ?
any idea?

Welcome to PHPBuilder!

[man]cURL[/man] sounds like it would do the job nicely, yes.