How to use curl with Django, csrf tokens and POST requests

Question

I\'m using curl to test one of my Django forms. The calls I\'ve tried (with errors from each, and over multiple lines for readability):

(1):

curl
-d          


        

Answer 1

curl-auth-csrf is a Python-based open-source tool capable of doing this for you: "Python tool that mimics cURL, but performs a login and handles any Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) tokens. Useful for scraping HTML normally only accessible when logged in."

This would be your syntax:

echo -n YourPasswordHere | ./curl-auth-csrf.py -i http://127.0.0.1:8083/registrations/register/ -d 'email=test@test.com&a=1' http://127.0.0.1:8083/registrations/register/

This will pass along the POST data as listed, but also to include the password passed via stdin. I assume that the page you visit after "login" is the same page.

Full disclosure: I'm the author of curl-auth-csrf.