Been playing with ERPNext a bit recently. Tried to test the REST API so as to learn how it works.

In the Frappe documentation, it says to login like this:

Tried the following code in my terminal and it worked

$ curl --data "usr=Administrator&pwd=admin" http://localhost:8000/api/method/login

However the API to test whether the user has been logged in was not working

$ curl http://localhost:8000/api/method/frappe.auth.get_logged_user

It would NOT work :-/

If i would paste the URL in my web browser, it would recognize that i was logged in.

I realized cookies are being used. To do it from the command line, all i had to do was create a cookie jar and later fetch the cookie from the jar 😉

$ curl --data "usr=Administrator&pwd=admin" http://localhost:8000/api/method/login --cookie-jar lol

$ curl http://localhost:8000/api/method/frappe.auth.get_logged_user --cookie lol

It would finally recognize me now. 😀