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authorJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2016-02-18 19:01:19 -0500
committerJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2016-02-18 19:01:19 -0500
commita11c5f329f89b93efc934942cd212f7a69027ed8 (patch)
tree51c8260dff7f9397b21da20558e5e39b4c0e1c82
parentbe2db606502eedecc099bb4f529641b31fd5253a (diff)
curl.1: HTTP headers for --cookie must be Set-Cookie style
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/666 Reported-by: baumanj@users.noreply.github.com
-rw-r--r--docs/curl.14
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 0977a1fd6..37088ea2a 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ read previously stored cookie lines from, which should be used in this session
if they match. Using this method also activates the cookie engine which will
make curl record incoming cookies too, which may be handy if you're using this
in combination with the \fI-L, --location\fP option. The file format of the
-file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or the Netscape/Mozilla
-cookie file format.
+file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers (Set-Cookie style) or
+the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format.
The file specified with \fI-b, --cookie\fP is only used as input. No cookies
will be written to the file. To store cookies, use the \fI-c, --cookie-jar\fP