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  23. .TH CURLOPT_COOKIE 3 "December 21, 2016" "libcurl 7.61.1" "curl_easy_setopt options"
  24. .SH NAME
  25. CURLOPT_COOKIE \- set contents of HTTP Cookie header
  26. .SH SYNOPSIS
  27. #include <curl/curl.h>
  28. CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_COOKIE, char *cookie);
  29. .SH DESCRIPTION
  30. Pass a pointer to a zero terminated string as parameter. It will be used to
  31. set a cookie in the HTTP request. The format of the string should be
  32. NAME=CONTENTS, where NAME is the cookie name and CONTENTS is what the cookie
  33. should contain.
  34. If you need to set multiple cookies, set them all using a single option
  35. concatenated like this: "name1=content1; name2=content2;" etc.
  36. This option sets the cookie header explicitly in the outgoing request(s). If
  37. multiple requests are done due to authentication, followed redirections or
  38. similar, they will all get this cookie passed on.
  39. The cookies set by this option are separate from the internal cookie storage
  40. held by the cookie engine and will not be modified by it. If you enable the
  41. cookie engine and either you've imported a cookie of the same name (e.g. 'foo')
  42. or the server has set one, it will have no effect on the cookies you set here.
  43. A request to the server will send both the 'foo' held by the cookie engine and
  44. the 'foo' held by this option. To set a cookie that is instead held by the
  45. cookie engine and can be modified by the server use
  46. \fICURLOPT_COOKIELIST(3)\fP.
  47. Using this option multiple times will only make the latest string override the
  48. previous ones.
  49. This option will not enable the cookie engine. Use \fICURLOPT_COOKIEFILE(3)\fP
  50. or \fICURLOPT_COOKIEJAR(3)\fP to enable parsing and sending cookies
  51. automatically.
  52. The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
  53. option.
  54. .SH DEFAULT
  55. NULL, no cookies
  56. .SH PROTOCOLS
  57. HTTP
  58. .SH EXAMPLE
  59. .nf
  60. CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  61. if(curl) {
  62. curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");
  63. curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIE, "tool=curl; fun=yes;");
  64. curl_easy_perform(curl);
  65. }
  66. .fi
  67. .SH AVAILABILITY
  68. If HTTP is enabled
  69. .SH RETURN VALUE
  70. Returns CURLE_OK if HTTP is enabled, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or
  71. CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
  72. .SH "SEE ALSO"
  73. .BR CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE "(3), " CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR "(3), " CURLOPT_COOKIELIST "(3), "
  74. .BR CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER "(3), "