Session Cookie Auth Fails When Replicating Browser Requests in Python
A developer scraping a Keycloak-based SSO portal can authenticate via browser and curl with captured session cookies, but the same request fails with 403 Forbidden when replicated in a Python requests session. The issue is specific to this university's SSO implementation and session-handling quirks rather than a general API limitation.
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