How do you use cURL to authenticate on a Rails application that uses Devise?
This works:
Authenticate:
curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H 'Accept: application/json' \ -X POST http://localhost:3000/users/sign_in \ -d "{'user' : { 'email' : 'test@example.com', 'password' : 'password'}}" \ -c cookieShow:
curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H 'Accept: application/json' \ -X GET http://localhost:3000/pages/1.xml \ -b cookie
This is because Rails by default adds an authenticity token to forms to protect from malicious forgery of submitted parameters. As you do not supply this token with your request, rails does not accept it.You can bypass this with
skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_tokenin your controller, where authorization takes place, better even to limit it to the authorization action with :only.
Have you tried something like this (not tested):
curl --user name:password http://www.domain.comcurl --user name:password -f 'key=value' http://www.domain.com