wget

wget -r --no-parent http://example.com/configs/.vim/

--no-check-certificate

# Log in to the server.  This can be done only once.                   
wget --save-cookies cookies.txt \
     --keep-session-cookies \
     --post-data 'user=foo&password=bar' \
     --delete-after \
     http://server.com/auth.php

# Now grab the page or pages we care about.
wget --load-cookies cookies.txt \
     http://server.com/interesting/article.php