Comments on: A curl-ier Curb – better cookie support in Curb

By: Thufir

Thufir — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:10:06 +0000

how do you create a cookie as:

You then have to add yourself a cookie (well, it look like Google doesn’t add it itself) with the following properties :
name SID
domain .google.com
path /
expires 1600000000

http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI

in your example, only the name is set.

By: Chu Yeow

Chu Yeow — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:35:48 +0000

@Waseem here's an example (I actually use something like this in an app):

curl = Curl::Easy.new('http://example.com/login')

# Extract cookies in response.
cookies = []
curl.on_header { |header|

  # Parse cookies from the headers (yes, this is a naive implementation but it's fast).
  cookies << "#{$1}=#{$2}" if header =~ /^Set-Cookie: ([^=])=([^;]+;)/

  header.length
}

# POST to login.
curl.http_post(
  Curl::PostField.content('username', 'foo'),
  Curl::PostField.content('password', 'bar')
)

# Reset the on_header handler.
curl.on_header

# Now you can use the auth cookies in future requests.
curl = Curl::Easy.new('http://example.com/private/page')
curl.cookies = cookies
curl.perform

By: Waseem

Waseem — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:59:29 +0000

That is awesome change to curb. Would you please supply some example as how to use this feature of curb? How to authenticate in a cookie-based authentication system?