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cookie is a small piece of unique generated data for a user when they come first time to a website. Among other things, it is used to know user's preferences on a site, his platform, browser usage among other things. It is also used to track user's behaviour on the site.

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How to accept cookie on the wkhtmltopdf command?

I am using the Linux command wkhtmltopdf to convert the HTML page to a PDF file for a report, but the page showing the cookie privacy note on the website which doesn't look good. To convert the wkhtmltopdf, seems the --cookies-jar is not a correct…
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Difference between cURL's cookie-jar option and browser cookie?

I'm trying to login to a website using curl and HTTP requests. With the first http GET request I add -c cookie.txt to the command to save the cookie to a file. For the second curl POST I add -b cookie.txt to pass the same cookie again. Unfortunately…
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Get "Cookie" from https site by curl

I would like to have cookie of a HTTPS site. I do have credential and certificate to access given site. If I access site from chrome/firefox then I can easily extract cookie but what is the way to have this cookie from command line by using…
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Where are firefox cookies in Linux?

I want to find out where are firefox cookies getting stored in Linux. there is a similar old question here which says that the cookies are stored at ~.mozilla/firefox//cookies.sqlite but i think this is not true anymore because i…
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How to use curl to access a webpage behind a login form?

There is this webpage I'm trying to scrape but it is behind a login form that needs user/password. I used Firefox debug mode to find HTTP requests. Upon entering the credentials, there is a POST request which return a set-cookie in Response Headers.…
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What is the purpose of "use curl --cookie with a file that doesn't exist"?

From https://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html Curl's "cookie engine" gets enabled when you use the --cookie option. If you only want curl to understand received cookies, use --cookie with a file that doesn't exist. Example, if you want to…
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How to run a web page with cache refresh using chromium-browser and command line?

I can start a web page with command line like that cromium-browser http://some-page.com. How can I start a web page with command line and with hard refresh cache option (equivalent of CTRL-F5 if I tried to manually opened it with cromium)? I think…
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Use xdg-open to set cookie or post data

I use debian with gnome, and I often use xdg-open to launch my broswer on differents websites. I know xdg-open is intended to use system's default application for argument's registered purpose, be it open files, URLs, or any preferred application,…
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How to ignore the cookie path when using `cURL` request

I have two web-services https://localhost/svc/auth which I call first with Authorization headers and I get a cookie https://localhost/svc/catalog/1234 which I call by providing the cookie set by the 1st call I am trying to use cURL like…
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How to remove tii.la cookie in Linux?

I'm using Brave browser ver 1.56.20 in MX Linux 21.3 (Debian 11 based), how can I remove cookies in Brave? Tried to use remove icon, it does not work, seems it's a known bug in Brave (over a year old and not solved yet), installed BleachBit, did not…
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`wget`: Cookies doesn't authenticate

I got some cookies from my browser where I'm well authenticated into a website. I've tried to give them to wget and make it download some internal pages, but all it downloads is authentication page wget --load-cookies $path/cookies.txt…
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Is it possible to multiple login on the same server with wget?

The aim is to enter different accounts at the same time. With lynx this is possible using files for each account with the -cfg=~/file argument. wget has a .wgetrc file that can be configured with: cookies = on load_cookies =…
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How to save cookies when the app write to document.cookie?

I'd like to understand how to save cookies that the application writes to document.cookie (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/cookie), as I've noticed that the common methods wget/curl to save to a file does not work for this…
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After logging in and downloading cookies using --cookie-jar, how do we use the downloaded cookies to access the page again?

I used the command below to download cookie using CURL in bash. How do I use this file (cookies.txt) to access the page? curl -u username --cookie cookies.txt --cookie-jar cookies.txt https://example.com
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Can cookies be used to access an account like Instagram

Edit: Please don't downvote the post, I meant to click the Super User stackExchange when clicking the bookmark in my browser. Can cookies.txt obtained via 'Get cookies.txt' chrome extension when you're logged in be used to access your account.
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