Java EE Authentication with Curl

06 Jan 2015

If you’ve always wondered how to authenticate to a standard Java EE authentication form using the curl command, this page is for you!

First we’ll obtain a session id from the server.
```
curl -v -c cookies.txt http://localhost/login/index.jsp
```
The session id will be stored as a cookie in the file cookies.txt.

Next we’ll use the session id to authenticate the user.

curl -L -v -b cookies.txt \
     -d 'j_username=<username>&j_password=<password>' \
     http://localhost/login/j_security_check

Finally once the session id is authenticated, we can use it to do secured operations.
```
curl -v -b cookies.txt http://localhost/list
```

Hope that was useful :)

Bonzour