curl and oauth

[Michael]

Can curl maintain a cookie based session?


I would highly recommend just using a client library, and not using curl.

[Jon]

this might be useful:
https://github.com/mojodna/oauth-proxy

[Michael]

I like to fire up the ruby console and mess with it, but it's not worth learning a new language for.

[Imix]

Matthew, I can confirm that curl can maintain a cookie based session. You may need to check out these cURL options:

* CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR (set to cookie filename and it's location)
* CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE (set to cookie filename and it's location)
* CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION (if true new session for each new connection)

To web auth there are also useful options:
* CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH CURLAUTH_ANY
* CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER 0
* CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL
* CURLOPT_PROXY
* CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS

[Robert]

The Postman REST client Chrome extension can make playing with OAuth much easier.