bash script to login to webpage
Some things you're obviously doing wrong - your form looks like this:
<form onsubmit="return validate_form(this)" method="post" action="https://bb5.fsu.edu/cas/" id="login" AUTOCOMPLETE="off"><!-- etc --> </form>You need to submit your request to the "action" URL of the form, and you need to make it a POST request instead of a GET request to some other URL.
curl -c vh.cookie "http://campus.fsu.edu/webapps/login/bb_bb60/logincas.jsp?username=foor&password=bar" curl -b vh.cookie "http://campus.fsu.edu/webapps/login/login.result"where http://campus.fsu.edu/webapps/login/login.result is the end url after user is authenticated
so initially authenticate then - call curl again and load in cookie to authenticated url
I managed to do this with python and mechanize. Should work for you too:
http://stockrt.github.com/p/handling-html-forms-with-python-mechanize-and-BeautifulSoup/
You can also download selenium plugin and export your loging-in scenario as python, ruby or java script. With some libraries downloaded you'll achieve the same.