Performing multiple requests using curl, with different options - bash

Question

I'm trying to use curl to upload a file to sharepoint. I can do this successfully in three steps (ie. 3 separate invocations of curl to check the file out, upload it, and check it back in), using the suggestions in the following post:
How to check-out a file from sharepoint document library using curl?
My individual requests look like:
# Checkout the index.html file
curl --ntlm --user ${USER} \
--data #- \
-H "SOAPAction: http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/CheckOutFile" \
-H "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8" \
${SHAREPOINT}/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx << EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
<CheckOutFile xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/">
<pageUrl>${FILE}</pageUrl>
<checkoutToLocal>false</checkoutToLocal>
<lastmodified/>
</CheckOutFile>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
EOF
# upload the file
curl --ntlm -u ${USER} \
-T HTML/2015/index.html \
${FOLDER}
curl --ntlm --user ${USER} \
--data #- \
-H "SOAPAction: http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/CheckInFile" \
-H "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8" \
${SHAREPOINT}/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx << EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<CheckInFile xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/">
<pageUrl>${FILE}</pageUrl>
<comment>Automagic update</comment>
<checkinType>0</checkinType>
</CheckInFile>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
EOF
Unfortunately, this results in cUrl asking me for my password 3 times (and it's a long password! :-) ). I also don't like the idea of a .netrc file, since writing passwords to disk is not a great idea.
So, what I thought I might be able to do is combine all of the requests into a single command line, setting and deleting headers as necessary, supplying the request bodies as appropriate using bash process substitution, etc.
curl --ntlm --user ${USER} \
--trace-ascii publish.log \
--data #<(echo "$CHECKOUT") \
-H "SOAPAction: http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/CheckOutFile" \
-H "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8" \
${SHAREPOINT}/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx \
-H "SOAPAction:" \
-H "Content-Type:" \
-T HTML/2015/index.html \
${FOLDER} \
--data #<(echo "$CHECKIN") \
-H "SOAPAction: http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/CheckInFile" \
-H "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8" \
${SHAREPOINT}/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx
Unfortunately, what happens is that cUrl seems to process all of the options at once, and only then attempt to request the URL's, resulting in options for one URL overwriting options for another URL, and ultimately nothing working. A snippet from the log file:
> 0000: PUT /xxx/xxx/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx HTTP/1.1
> 0033: Authorization: NTLM AAAAAAAAAAA=
> 0075: User-Agent: curl/7.30.0
> 008e: Host: example.com
> 00a8: Accept: */*
> 00b5: SOAPAction: http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/CheckOu
> 00f5: tFile
> 00fc: Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
> 0123: SOAPAction: http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/CheckIn
> 0163: File
> 0169: Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
> 0190: Content-Length: 0
> 01a3: Expect: 100-continue
Notice the duplicated SOAPAction header, while I was hoping to only have the first options applied.
Is there any way to say "stop processing options now, do this URL, then carry on"?

Answer 1

If typing password three times is your only concern, you can prompt for the password and read it in a variable and use it in curl command as like below.
echo "Password: "
read -s PASSWORD
# Checkout the index.html file
curl --ntlm --user ${USER}:${PASSWORD} \
--data #- \
-H "SOAPAction: http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/CheckOutFile" \
-H "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8" \
${SHAREPOINT}/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx << EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<CheckOutFile xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/">
<pageUrl>${FILE}</pageUrl>
<checkoutToLocal>false</checkoutToLocal>
<lastmodified/>
</CheckOutFile>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
EOF
# upload the file
curl --ntlm -u ${USER}:${PASSWORD} \
-T HTML/2015/index.html \
${FOLDER}
curl --ntlm --user ${USER}:${PASSWORD} \
--data #- \
-H "SOAPAction: http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/CheckInFile" \
-H "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8" \
${SHAREPOINT}/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx << EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<CheckInFile xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/">
<pageUrl>${FILE}</pageUrl>
<comment>Automagic update</comment>
<checkinType>2</checkinType>
</CheckInFile>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
EOF