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HACKING: Add session auth/startup with curl

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then do the mouse action (like hovering over an element) and wait until the
timeout.
## Start login session and web socket with curl
For iterating on the login / web socket ←→ bridge integration, this command
logs into our standard test VM (https://127.0.0.2:9091) and establishes the web
socket connection and user session:
```sh
curl -ksS -D- -u admin:foobar --cookie-jar /tmp/cookie https://127.0.0.2:9091/cockpit/login --no-buffer -H"Connection: Upgrade" -H"Upgrade: websocket" -H"Host: 127.0.0.2:9091" -H"Origin: https://127.0.0.2:9091" -H"Sec-Websocket-Key: 3sc2c9IzwRUc3BlSIYwtSA==" -H"Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13" https://127.0.0.2:9091/cockpit/socket
```
It replies with a message like
```
{"csrf-token":"e3074fc5e06cb3804ad8c3463fc6727c67ac245dd3c39590e486644759a42818"}HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols
```
which contains the session token. You can use the `--cookie-jar` to issue
further authenticated HTTP requests. Note that as there is no browser attached,
the session times out after some 10 seconds of inactivity.
## Manually installing the development dependencies
_If at all possible, use the cockpit/tasks container with toolbox/distrobox as