I am accessing a server requiring SSL client authentication.

I am able to login using my client certificate with curl.

The problem is when I do a another invoke of curl.

I have to supply my client certificate with each invoke.

I wish to authenticate the first time only.

How can another invoke of curl be instructed to use the same session as the first invoke so authentication is not needed for each invoke?  I know this behavior is possible because a browser user need only authenticate with the web server once during a session.  Please see curl output below.  As an observation, I noticed supplying multiple URLs on the command line does not require re-authentication.  But I would like to use multiple invokes of curl.

 

[root@MrA wgcCurl]# curl -E certs/ankurCollaboration.pem --cacert certs/ankurCollaborationChain.pem --verbose -L -O --cookie cookiejarWGC https://wgc.lockheedm
artin.com/llservletsupport/global.js --cookie-jar cookiejarWGC
* About to connect() to wgc.lockheedmartin.com port 443
* Connected to wgc.lockheedmartin.com (166.21.29.3) port 443
Enter PEM pass phrase:
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: certs/ankurCollaborationChain.pem
  CApath: none
* SSL connection using RC4-MD5
* Server certificate:
*        subject: /C=US/ST=Florida/L=Orlando/O=Lockheed Martin/OU=Enterprise Information Systems/CN=wgc.lockheedmartin.com
*        start date: 2003-08-08 02:30:17 GMT
*        expire date: 2005-08-07 02:30:17 GMT
*        commo! n name: wgc.lockheedmartin.com (matched)
*        issuer: /C=US/ST=Florida/L=Orlando/O=Lockheed Martin Corporation/OU=EIS/CN=Lockheed Martin Corporation US CA1
* SSL certificate verify ok.
> GET /llservletsupport/global.js HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.11.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.11.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7a ipv6 zlib/1.2.1.1
Host: wgc.lockheedmartin.com
Pragma: no-cache
Accept: */*
Cookie: SMSESSION=q303Hi3/w6vkEx01HTSx+awSEWEyRxLa1n1Ag52qn/FG4T378ep65JUkLLC4eEGZkaHDWE2I0UbRanQDfVNurtJ7huu7z50t9IsciNX28F7+/QL+nKCkwPLYS2sXlm4KePI/OdW4ZOBb6J
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  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed          Time             Curr.
                                 Dload  Upload Total    Current  Left    Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:16 --:--:--     0< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: Sun-ONE-Web-Server/6.1
< Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 04:07:32 GMT
< Content-length: 4292
* Replaced cookie SMSESSION="x0z1ZW3nN1ZtdY87pDgkFW0fgZQ3XE9XLz0fhK06efCQGuVKi/KaKgDXCUhFdUEsBRZLGe+XGhnvRsaoo8loEfTHHbP99CtL0D7ISDoIjYpQcVz5OCrYl7tNkL9boKFNIwy
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n=.lockheedmartin.com
* Replaced cookie SMCHALLENGE="" for domain lockheedmartin.com, path /, expire 1094184451
< Set-Cookie: SMCHALLENGE=; path=/; expires=Fri, 03 Sep 2004 04:07:31 GMT; domain=.lockheedmartin.com
< Last-Modified: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:40:44 GMT
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
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* Connection #0 left intact
* Closing connection #0

 

 

 

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