| Short: b |
| Long: cookie |
| Arg: <data|filename> |
| Protocols: HTTP |
| Help: Send cookies from string/file |
| Category: http |
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| Pass the data to the HTTP server in the Cookie header. It is supposedly |
| the data previously received from the server in a "Set-Cookie:" line. The |
| 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 |
| to read previously stored cookie from. This option also activates the cookie |
| engine which will make curl record incoming cookies, which may be handy if |
| you're using this in combination with the --location option or do multiple URL |
| transfers on the same invoke. If the file name is exactly a minus ("-"), curl |
| 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 |
| (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 |
| 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 |
| cookie is not sent since the domain will never match. To address this, set a |
| domain in Set-Cookie line (doing that will include sub-domains) or preferably: |
| 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 |
| cookies back to a file, so using both --cookie and --cookie-jar in the same |
| command line is common. |
