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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2018-03-20 23:25:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2018-03-20 23:25:12 +0100 |
| commit | d92a9bd4ecf53c4e410c57eeae315242c1db5790 (patch) | |
| tree | d0fa34429f461e0d75a65ab21228c4a400f462a1 | |
| parent | 27d7e511d5db558273a1e9fcd8658918f5b77d62 (diff) | |
cookie.d: mention that "-" as filename means stdin
Reported-by: Dongliang Mu
Fixes #2410
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/cmdline-opts/cookie.d | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/cookie.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/cookie.d index 383adda6e..3ae697548 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/cookie.d +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/cookie.d @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ 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. +transfers on the same invoke. If the file name is exactly a minus ("-"), curl +will instead the contents from stdin. 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. |