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HTTP-COOKIES: mention that a trailing newline is required

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... so that we know we got the whole and not a partial line.

Also, changed the formatting of the fields away from a table again since
the table format requires a github-markdown tool version that we don't
run on the web server atm.

Reported-by: Sunny Bean
Fixes #4946
Closes #4947
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that start with `#` are treated as comments.
Each line that each specifies a single cookie consists of seven text fields
separated with TAB characters.
separated with TAB characters. A valid line must end with a newline
character.
|Field| Type | Example | Meaning |
|---|---------|-------------|-----------------------------------------------|
| 0 | string | example.com | Domain name |
| 1 | boolean | FALSE | Include subdomains |
| 2 | string | /foobar/ | Path |
| 3 | boolean | TRUE | Send/receive over HTTPS only |
| 4 | number | 1462299217 | Expires at – seconds since Jan 1st 1970, or 0 |
| 5 | string | person | Name of the cookie |
| 6 | string | daniel | Value of the cookie |
### Fields in the file
Field number, what type and example data and the meaning of it:
0. string `example.com` - the domain name
1. boolean `FALSE` - include subdomains
2. string `/foobar/` - path
3. boolean `TRUE` - send/receive over HTTPS only
4. number `1462299217` - expires at - seconds since Jan 1st 1970, or 0
5. string `person` - name of the cookie
6. string `daniel` - value of the cookie
## Cookies with curl the command line tool