Session dying when using curl from command line

If you want curl to store cookies between calls, you need to tell it to do so.

Check out the --cookie and --cookie-jar options.

curl --cookie-jar cookies.txt -s -L --data "secret=secret_password"# thencurl --cookie cookies.txt --cookie-jar cookies.txt -s -L url/films

The --cookie-jar option tells curl to write any cookies it received to the file when the request ends, and the --cookie option instructs it to read cookies from that file for issuing requests.

That should allow you to log in, and then use the cookies to re-establish the session on subsequent requests.

curl --help and man curl are your friends!

Complementing the great @drew010 answer, you can also use both --cookie and --cookie-jar together if you need to read and (also) write/update the cookie.

Example of bash script using cURL, reading and writing cookies, and storing them in the /temp folder (to keep your local folder clean):

#!/bin/bashecho "## SUBMITTING..."; sleep 0.5;echo "## SERVER RESPONSE:";echo ""; sleep 0.5;curl -X GET \  http://localhost:8080/web-service/path \  --cookie /tmp/cookie.txt \  --cookie-jar /tmp/cookie.txt \  -H 'Accept: */*' \  -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \  -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \echo "";echo "";