On 3/20/2011 5:01 PM, Jostein Elvaker Haande wrote:
> On 20 March 2011 21:50, Seth Mos <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I use curl from within PHP with cookies and can succesfully login to the ui 
>> with that. You need something that keeps state and cookies won't do.
> 
> Now this might be a lack of knowledge from my side, but here goes:
> HTTP in itself is a stateless protocol, and as such, to keep states
> across a session one needed to implement something to keep track of
> this state. And et' voila came the introduction of cookies, to store
> session information.
> 
> But from what you just said, you say that isn't the case, and to be
> quite honest that confuses me. So if curl with cookies can't keep this
> state information, what can (and why can curl within PHP do this, and
> not curl from the command line?).
> 

You may find this enlightening:

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Remote_Config_Backup#Pulling_on_2.0

Jim

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