This post is all about logging in to phpBB through manually constructed requests. Once you're logged in, scraping the forum is up to you. You can use the usual techniques for it, just be sure not to crawl the buttons for logout, report, watch, bookmark, user control panel, moderator control panel, admin control panel, and so on and so forth, all of which are activated with GET requests. Your logged in session is stored in the cookies. I suggest using the cookie-jar pattern rather than manuall...