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yarek
yarek

Reputation: 12044

how to get Cookie curl from?

I am trying to get content of the page: I use google dev tool (network) and use "copy as curl" which gives me: 

curl 'http://www.example.com/default.aspx/GetAnnonces' -H 'Cookie: `ASP.NET_SessionId=eolrcogrk1owhmpbsogwd0mf; EPC_alerte=;`

This works fine for a while, I guess beacuse of the session life period.

My question is:

Where the SessionId "eolrcogrk1owhmpbsogwd0mf" comes from and how to generate it so I can access the page any time ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 354

Answers (1)

Sherif
Sherif

Reputation: 11943

It comes from the Set-Cookie HTTP response header of the page you visited. If you're trying to use cURL in PHP it will automatically handle cookies for you and you can set CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR with curl_setopt to retain cookies even after the request is complete.

If you just want to see the response headers you could also use curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, true) and look at the Set-Cookie response headers. Though there's no practical reason for doing this for most typical use cases since cURL will just handle the cookies for you like your browser would.

Upvotes: 1

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