[Developers] [+] Using CURL for freebase login

[Tyler Pirtle]

Niall O'Higgins wrote:
> Try it this way:
>
> curl -d 'username=foo' -d 'password=bar' http://www.sandbox-freebase.com/api/account/login
>

Also, you should save the cookies,

	curl -b freebase-login-cookies -d 'username=foo' -d 'password=bar' http://www.sandbox-freebase.com/api/account/login



then, when running more curl requests,

    curl -b freebase-login-cookies 
http://www.sandbox.com/api/service/mqlwrite.or.something?

> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:03:10PM -0400, Matthew Chan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've tried all day to get freebase to respond to my php authentication 
>> function.
>>
>> I've narrowed it down to my Curl query I think. Does anyone know what is 
>> wrong with this?
>>
>> Thanks in advanced.
>> Matt
>>
>> [matthew at laptop php]$ curl --data-urlencode "{'username':'****', 
>> 'password':'****'}" http://sandbox.freebase.com/api/account/login
>> {
>>    "code": "/api/status/error",
>>    "messages": [
>>      {
>>        "code": "/api/status/error/input/invalid",
>>        "info": {
>>          "field": "username",
>>          "value": null
>>        },
>>        "message": "Missing value"
>>      },
>>      {
>>        "code": "/api/status/error/input/invalid",
>>        "info": {
>>          "field": "password",
>>          "value": null
>>        },
>>        "message": "Missing value"
>>      }
>>    ],
>>    "status": "400 Bad Request",
>>    "transaction_id": 
>> "cache;cache01.sandbox.sjc1:8101;2009-06-15T20:54:52Z;0002"
>>
>>
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