From 2d9314aa3145ec7948341f38164e13c2a2d945ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: A Farzat <a@farzat.xyz>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:13:36 +0300
Subject: Add a login check

Try to access the profile page to see if the cookies work or not.
---
 Cargo.lock  | 13 +++++++++++++
 Cargo.toml  |  1 +
 src/main.rs | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 src/orly.rs | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/orly.rs

diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6d02809..ef277f6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1006,6 +1006,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "reqwest",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
+ "tokio",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
@@ -1265,9 +1266,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "mio",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "socket2",
+ "tokio-macros",
  "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-macros"
+version = "2.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "af407857209536a95c8e56f8231ef2c2e2aff839b22e07a1ffcbc617e9db9fa5"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-rustls"
 version = "0.26.4"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index dc2f515..42e52da 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,5 +10,6 @@ colored = "3.1"
 reqwest = { version = "0.13", default-features = false, features = ["rustls"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
+tokio = { version = "1.49", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter", "fmt"] }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 6981b8e..f79f191 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -3,14 +3,18 @@ mod config;
 mod cookies;
 mod display;
 mod http_client;
+mod orly;
 
 use clap::Parser;
 use cli::Args;
 use cookies::CookieStore;
 use display::Display;
 use http_client::HttpClient;
+use orly::check_login;
+use reqwest::Client;
 
-fn main() {
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() {
     let args = Args::parse();
     let mut ui = Display::new(&args.bookid);
 
@@ -40,12 +44,22 @@ fn main() {
     ));
 
     // Build the HTTP client with our cookies (no network calls yet).
-    let _client = match HttpClient::from_store(&store) {
+    let client = match HttpClient::from_store(&store) {
         Ok(c) => c,
         Err(e) => ui.error_and_exit(&format!("Failed to build HTTP client: {e}")),
     };
     ui.info("HTTP client initialized with cookies (no requests performed).");
 
+    // Check whether the cookies work (are we logged in?).
+    match check_login(&client).await {
+        Ok(true) => ui.info("Login confirmed..."),
+        Ok(false) => ui.error_and_exit(
+            "Logged out. Cookies could be stale or invalid.\n\
+            Try refreshing your cookies.json and trying again.",
+        ),
+        Err(e) => ui.error_and_exit(&format!("Login check failed: {e}")),
+    };
+
     let output_dir = config::books_root().join(format!("(pending) ({})", args.bookid));
 
     ui.set_output_dir(output_dir);
diff --git a/src/orly.rs b/src/orly.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd8b645
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/orly.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+use crate::http_client::HttpClient;
+use anyhow::{bail, Result};
+
+pub const PROFILE_URL: &str = "https://learning.oreilly.com/profile/";
+
+/// Check whether cookies keep us logged in by fetching the profile page.
+/// Returns:
+/// - Ok(true)  => HTTP 200 (assume logged in)
+/// - Ok(false) => Redirect or 401/403 (assume not logged in)
+/// - Err(..)   => Network/other error
+pub async fn check_login(client: &HttpClient) -> Result<bool> {
+    let res = client.client().get(PROFILE_URL).send().await?;
+    let status = res.status();
+
+    if status.is_redirection() {
+        Ok(false)
+    } else if status == 200 {
+        Ok(true)
+    } else {
+        bail!("Profile request returned unexpected status {}", status)
+    }
+}
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