43 lines
1.8 KiB
Makefile
43 lines
1.8 KiB
Makefile
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
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SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
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Short: b
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Long: cookie
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Arg: <data|filename>
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Protocols: HTTP
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Help: Send cookies from string/file
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Category: http
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Example: -b cookiefile $URL
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Example: -b cookiefile -c cookiefile $URL
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See-also: cookie-jar junk-session-cookies
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Added: 4.9
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Multi: append
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---
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Pass the data to the HTTP server in the Cookie header. It is supposedly the
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data previously received from the server in a "Set-Cookie:" line. The data
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should be in the format "NAME1=VALUE1; NAME2=VALUE2". This makes curl use the
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cookie header with this content explicitly in all outgoing request(s). If
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multiple requests are done due to authentication, followed redirects or
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similar, they all get this cookie passed on.
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If no '=' symbol is used in the argument, it is instead treated as a filename
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to read previously stored cookie from. This option also activates the cookie
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engine which makes curl record incoming cookies, which may be handy if you are
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using this in combination with the --location option or do multiple URL
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transfers on the same invoke. If the file name is exactly a minus ("-"), curl
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instead reads the contents from stdin.
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The file format of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers
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(Set-Cookie style) or the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format.
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The file specified with --cookie is only used as input. No cookies are written
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to the file. To store cookies, use the --cookie-jar option.
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If you use the Set-Cookie file format and do not specify a domain then the
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cookie is not sent since the domain never matches. To address this, set a
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domain in Set-Cookie line (doing that includes subdomains) or preferably: use
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the Netscape format.
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Users often want to both read cookies from a file and write updated cookies
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back to a file, so using both --cookie and --cookie-jar in the same command
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line is common.
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