Reverse-engineer auth and cookies

log in with firefox and export cookies to cookies.txt

This only exports cookies for the given site. Not all domains. But it could be relevant that another domain was used to authenticate and does have some cookies.

Curl options

-b read cookies from this file.  Don't store any cookies here.
-c write all cookies here

rday@ferret:~$ ls -l incookies.txt outcookies.txt
ls: cannot access outcookies.txt: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 rday rday 643 Feb  1 11:25 incookies.txt

rday@ferret:~$ curl -b incookies.txt -c outcookies.txt http://christianscience.com/bible-lessons/ebiblelesson/love

The site thinks I need to log in. Maybe the behavior of curl is that -c overrides -b, so providing an empty -c is equivalent to providing no cookies at all.

rday@ferret:~$ curl -c incookies.txt http://christianscience.com/bible-lessons/ebiblelesson/love

It still thinks I need to log in. I'm getting an error:

Could not resolve host: outcookies.txt

rday@ferret:~$ curl -vID -c outcookies.txt http://christianscience.com/bible-lessons/ebiblelesson/love
* Rebuilt URL to: outcookies.txt/
* Adding handle: conn: 0x1713d90
* Adding handle: send: 0
* Adding handle: recv: 0
* Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
* - Conn 0 (0x1713d90) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
* Could not resolve host: outcookies.txt
* Closing connection 0
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: outcookies.txt
* Adding handle: conn: 0x1713de0
* Adding handle: send: 0
* Adding handle: recv: 0
* Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
* - Conn 1 (0x1713de0) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
* About to connect() to christianscience.com port 80 (#1)
*   Trying 174.129.17.231...
* Connected to christianscience.com (174.129.17.231) port 80 (#1)
> HEAD /bible-lessons/ebiblelesson/love HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.32.0
> Host: christianscience.com
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:38:00 GMT
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:38:00 GMT
* Server Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) is not blacklisted
< Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
< X-Powered-By: eZ Publish
X-Powered-By: eZ Publish
< Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
< Last-Modified: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:38:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:38:00 GMT
< Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
< Pragma: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
< Served-by: christianscience.com
Served-by: christianscience.com
< Content-language: en-US
Content-language: en-US
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

< 
* Connection #1 to host christianscience.com left intact