Tried the following code in my terminal and it worked<\/p>\n However the API to test whether the user has been logged in was not working<\/p>\n It would NOT work :-\/<\/p>\n If i would paste the URL in my web browser, it would recognize that i was logged in. <\/p>\n 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 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n $ curl http:\/\/localhost:8000\/api\/method\/frappe.auth.get_logged_user --cookie lol<\/code><\/p>\n It would finally recognize me now. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading Cookie and Cookie Jars with REST API<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,192],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-frappe-io","tag-rest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"snapshot1\"](\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/snapshot1.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n$ curl --data \"usr=Administrator&pwd=admin\" http:\/\/localhost:8000\/api\/method\/login<\/code><\/p>\n$ curl http:\/\/localhost:8000\/api\/method\/frappe.auth.get_logged_user<\/code><\/p>\n$ curl --data \"usr=Administrator&pwd=admin\" http:\/\/localhost:8000\/api\/method\/login --cookie-jar lol<\/p>\n