Firewall/NAT

Hi All,

I have a need to enable or disable a firewall rule on an interface programatically.

Initially i'd looked at doing an authenticated http get on...

http://x.x.x.x/firewall_rules.php?if=wan&act=toggle&id=0

...to toggle the first rule on the wan interface.  However once I have done that I need to do a POST request to effectively click the "Apply Changes" button.

So I'm wondering if this is the only way of doing this or am I missing a more elegant way of enabling / disabling a firewall rule from code?

Thanks in Advance :-)

wget can be used to do button pushes with a command like this:

--post-data=submit=

Have you tried that?