Spring Security Authentication Using cURL
Posted By : Ashish Sharma | 30-Jan-2014
To Install cURL in your Ubuntu System, run the following command in your terminal:
- sudo sed -i -e 's/us.archive.ubuntu.com/archive.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install curl
Now its time to run some cURL command to login
- curl -i -H "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -c cookies.txt -X POST http://localhost:8080/myGrailsApp/j_spring_security_check -d "[email protected]&j_password=oodles"
- If you get successfully logged in response will be
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=F7A7D768C65E601A44649C2BECC6B879; Path=/; HttpOnly
Location: http://localhost:8080/myGrailsApp
Content-Length: 0
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:51:41 GMT - If your authentication fails then response will be
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Set-Cookie: Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:10 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=D143DFD97A0E0C0155F8DB3F7E50065D; Path=/; HttpOnly
Location: http://localhost:8080/myGrailsApp/login/authfail?login_error=1
Content-Length: 0
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:05:20 GMT
After this we can call all the Spring security secured controllers and actions like this-
- curl -i -b cookies.txt -X GET http://localhost:8080/myGrailsApp/controllerName/actionName
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Ashish Sharma
Ashish is a bright Groovy and Grails developer and have worked on development of various SaaS applications using Grails technologies. Ashish likes PC games and works out at Gym in his free time.