script to load CAS protected content using curl (based on http://ecmsimon.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/automated-e2e-testing-of-alfresco-through-cas/)

cas-get.sh

# Usage: cas-get.sh {url} {username} {password} # If you have any errors try removing the redirects to get more information
# The service to be called, and a url-encoded version (the url encoding isn't perfect, if you're encoding complex stuff you may wish to replace with a different method)
DEST="$1"
ENCODED_DEST=`echo "$DEST" | perl -p -e 's/([^A-Za-z0-9])/sprintf("%%%02X", ord($1))/seg' | sed 's/%2E/./g' | sed 's/%0A//g'`

#IP Addresses or hostnames are fine here
CAS_HOSTNAME=team.eea.sk

#Authentication details. This script only supports username/password login, but curl can handle certificate login if required
USERNAME=$2
PASSWORD=$3

#Temporary files used by curl to store cookies and http headers
COOKIE_JAR=.cookieJar
HEADER_DUMP_DEST=.headers
rm $COOKIE_JAR
rm $HEADER_DUMP_DEST

#The script itself is below

#Visit CAS and get a login form. This includes a unique ID for the form, which we will store in CAS_ID and attach to our form submission. jsessionid cookie will be set here
CAS_ID=`curl -s -k -c $COOKIE_JAR https://$CAS_HOSTNAME/cas/login?service=$ENCODED_DEST | grep name=.lt | sed 's/.*value..//' | sed 's/\".*//'`

#Submit the login form, using the cookies saved in the cookie jar and the form submission ID just extracted. We keep the headers from this request as the return value should be a 302 including a "ticket" param which we'll need in the next request
curl -s -k --data "username=$USERNAME&password=$PASSWORD&lt=$CAS_ID&_eventId=submit" -i -b $COOKIE_JAR -c $COOKIE_JAR https://$CAS_HOSTNAME/cas/login?service=$ENCODED_DEST -D $HEADER_DUMP_DEST -o /dev/null

#Linux may not need this line but my response from the previous call has retrieving windows-style linebreaks in OSX
#dos2unix $HEADER_DUMP_DEST > /dev/null

#Visit the URL with the ticket param to finally set the casprivacy and, more importantly, MOD_AUTH_CAS cookie. Now we've got a MOD_AUTH_CAS cookie, anything we do in this session will pass straight through CAS
CURL_DEST=`grep Location $HEADER_DUMP_DEST | sed 's/Location: //'`
curl -s -k -b $COOKIE_JAR -c $COOKIE_JAR $CURL_DEST

#If our destination is not a GET we'll need to do a GET to, say, the user dashboard here

#Visit the place we actually wanted to go to
curl -s -k -b $COOKIE_JAR "$DEST"

Great contribution. FYI, I've adapted it to create a script which does the same for Shibboleth : https://gist.github.com/olberger/d34253822a84664648b3

Hello,
My fork https://gist.github.com/gkazior/4cf7e4c38fbcbc310267
adds small enhancements
Unfortunately I cannot create a pull request:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8758612/can-i-make-a-pull-request-on-a-gist-on-github

I am not getting location entry URL after getting CAS_ID. I am using CAS version 4.0.4

I wrote an updated fork here feel free to comment any issue