Question

Ho to insert cookies value in curl? from firebug request headers I can see in the following

Cookie: PHPSESSID=gg792c2ktu6sch6n8q0udd94o0; was=1; uncheck2=1; uncheck3=1; uncheck4=1; uncheck5=0; hd=1; uncheck1=1"

I have tried the following:

curl http://site.com/ -s -L -b cookie.c -c cookie.c -d "was=1; uncheck2=1; uncheck3=1; uncheck4=1; uncheck5=0; hd=1; uncheck1=1" > comic

and the only thing i see in cookie.c is

PHPSESSID=gg792c2ktu6sch6n8q0udd94o0; was=1;

Answer 1

To pass keys/values to cURL cookie, you need the -b switch, not -d.

For the forms -d, the data will be separated by & and not by ; in your curl command.

So :

curl http://site.com/ \
    -s \
    -L \
    -b cookie.c \
    -c cookie.c \
    -b "was=1; uncheck2=1; uncheck3=1; uncheck4=1; uncheck5=0; hd=1; uncheck1=1"
    > comic

If you need to know the names of the forms to be POSTed, you can run the following command :

mech-dump --forms http://site.com/

It comes with libwww-mechanize-perl package with debian or derivated.