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Asked: 2026-06-13T08:30:04+00:00

My bash script is doing the following: curl -k -s -c gv.cookies https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin -F

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My bash script is doing the following:

curl -k -s -c gv.cookies https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin -F Email=something@gmail.com -F Passwd=somepassword -F service=grandcentral

This seems to work. The cookies file is created, and if I peruse the output, it certainly thinks that I’ve logged in.

However, when I next do this:

curl -k -s -b gv.cookies https://www.google.com/voice/

I get a “moved temporarily” page, and not the Google Voice markup that I expect.

Am I missing some parameter to curl that makes it use the cookies correctly? I don’t need it fixed so much as I need someone to point me in the right direction.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should add the -b & -L flags :

    curl \
    -L \
    -k \
    -s \
    -c gv.cookies \
    -b gv.cookies \
    -F Email=something@gmail.com \
    -F Passwd=somepassword \
    -F service=grandcentral \
    https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin

    -L, –location

    (HTTP/HTTPS) If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different location (indicated with a
    Location: header and a 3XX response code), this option will make curl
    redo the request on the new place.

    And

    -b, –cookie

    (HTTP) Pass the data to the HTTP server as a cookie. It is supposedly the data previously received from the server in a “Set-Cookie:” line. The data should be in the format
    “NAME1=VALUE1; NAME2=VALUE2”.

    If it’s not sufficient, try to change the user-agent for the firefox one by example.

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