On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 palmkes_at_berghmans.org wrote:

> I have a question about using curl and sessions. Given the commad
>
> curl -u user:pass -d "DATATOPOST"
> http://someurl/dispatch;jsessionid=bzlh059si1.t19L
>
> I want to post data to an url, but the url itself is related to a session.
> Now I want curl to open a session and put the right sessionid in the url.
> How can this be done?

You need to make curl do the same things your browser does when you do this
manually.

Most likely you:

 1. get the login page
 2. submit a login-post
 3. receive the cookies and response HTML
 4. figure out the "session-URL" (in the HTML)
 5. gets that one, passing along the cookies etc.
 6. WHILE ( there might be more URLs to get ) GOTO 4

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