How to ignore the cookie path when using `cURL` request

Question

I have two web-services

1. https://localhost/svc/auth which I call first with Authorization headers and I get a cookie

2. https://localhost/svc/catalog/1234 which I call by providing the cookie set by the 1st call

I am trying to use cURL like this to get the catalog "1234":

curl -u Username:Password -s -i -X GET 'http://localhost/svc/auth' -c /tmp/site-cookie.txt 

curl -b /tmp/site-cookie.txt -s -i -X GET 'http://localhost/svc/article-stock/v1/car/CRH4203052?sid=esi&channel=str&site=0148' 

But this does not work as it seems the cookie have the path set like this:

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
# http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
# This file was generated by libcurl! Edit at your own risk.

localhost   FALSE   /svc/auth       FALSE   0   MYCOOKIE    VXNlcm5hbWU6RU5DKFFva0VSaDdaMXpKTHRYRHJIUzlvaXVuakVpbURHYmsyaDFRUXlvclA4RD0p

I know I can ask the web-service developer to change the path in its cookie, but I wanted to know if cURL can ignore such path or not to save it?

Answer 1

If you are confident in what the server wants, you can edit the cookie after you have received it, and so extend the urls that it applies to. For example, after the first curl command add a sed to remove the trailing part of the url path (/auth):

sed -i -e '/^localhost/s|/auth||' /tmp/site-cookie.txt

then run the second curl and it will pass the cookie as it now matches the start of the url (/svc).