getting curl to destroy cookies

pendal · 11-30-2009, 11:02 AM

I need to access a website using curl

but when I visit the link a second time it thinks I have been there already and the form fields i want to fill in are not there.

how do i access the url with curl and dump and cookies it saved the previous time.

thanks,
Chris

rweaver · 11-30-2009, 12:03 PM

I believe what you're looking for is the -j option. That should ignore the cookies it has stored.

theddubl · 12-04-2009, 11:25 AM

You could always tell curl to store the cookies in a cookie jar and then delete that file. This would destroy the cookies and restore your "no cookie" state as before.

/temp$ curl -c ./jar1 http://www.bing.com -o bing.html
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 28781 100 28781 0 0 143k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 400k
/temp$ ls -tlr jar1 bing.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 dday dday 895 2009-12-04 12:22 jar1
-rw-r--r-- 1 dday dday 28781 2009-12-04 12:22 bing.html
/temp$

spewed the contents of bing's home page into bing.html and left the cookies in jar1. You can now delete jar1 and start fresh.