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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3 index a4c3b02b..00816b15 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms -.\" * are also available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. +.\" * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. .\" * .\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell .\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is @@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, char *filename); .SH DESCRIPTION Pass a pointer to a zero terminated string as parameter. It should point to the file name of your file holding cookie data to read. The cookie data can be -in either the old Netscape / Mozilla cookie data format or just regular -HTTP-style headers dumped to a file. +in either the old Netscape / Mozilla cookie data format or just regular HTTP +headers (Set-Cookie style) dumped to a file. It also enables the cookie engine, making libcurl parse and send cookies on subsequent requests with this handle. @@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ cookies. This option only \fBreads\fP cookies. To make libcurl write cookies to file, see \fICURLOPT_COOKIEJAR(3)\fP. +Exercise caution if you are using this option and multiple transfers may occur. +If you use the Set-Cookie format and don't specify a domain then the cookie is +sent for any domain (even after redirects are followed) and cannot be modified +by a server-set cookie. If a server sets a cookie of the same name then both +will be sent on a future transfer to that server, likely not what you intended. +To address these issues set a domain in Set-Cookie (doing that will include +sub-domains) or use the Netscape format. + If you use this option multiple times, you just add more files to read. Subsequent files will add more cookies. .SH DEFAULT |