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... or the cookies won't get sent. Push users to using the "Netscape" format instead, which curl uses when saving a cookie "jar". Reported-by: Martin Dorey Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson Fixes #6723 Closes #7077
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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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Pass the data to the HTTP server in the Cookie header. It is supposedly
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the data previously received from the server in a "Set-Cookie:" line. The
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data should be in the format "NAME1=VALUE1; NAME2=VALUE2".
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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 will make curl record incoming cookies, which may be handy if
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you're 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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will instead read 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 will be
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written to the file. To store cookies, use the --cookie-jar option.
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If you use the Set-Cookie file format and don't specify a domain then the
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cookie is not sent since the domain will never match. To address this, set a
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domain in Set-Cookie line (doing that will include sub-domains) or preferably:
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use the Netscape format.
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This option can be used multiple times.
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Users very often want to both read cookies from a file and write updated
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cookies back to a file, so using both --cookie and --cookie-jar in the same
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command line is common.
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