I’ll share how to save cookies and maintain sessions with curl.
Background: Unable to Maintain Sessions with curl
I was having trouble maintaining sessions because curl was issuing new sessions every time I sent HTTP requests.
Cause: curl Doesn't Save Cookies by Default
It seems curl doesn’t save cookies unless you use the -c option, so sessions couldn’t be maintained.
How to Save Cookies and Maintain Sessions with curl
The solution is to use curl’s -c option to specify a file for saving cookies.
curl -c Cookie file name
For example, if you want to maintain a logged-in session by saving cookies, use -ccurl -c cookie.txt http://example.com/logincurl -b Cookie file name to use
curl -b cookie.txt http://example.com/mypageThat’s all from wanting to save cookies and maintain sessions with curl from the Gemba.