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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2011-08-26 23:23:07 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2011-08-26 23:23:07 +0200
commite18c3f447e87fa82157f1ca811c0bc30d072bcbd (patch)
tree662be14937384900d19c1cff29f5e8291c56c8d4
parent0fd2bf372659da62b2705d0f0b558e33a9ea01c1 (diff)
--cookie-jar: activates the cookie engine
-rw-r--r--docs/curl.15
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 92835c208..d6fb9aa22 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -194,7 +194,10 @@ no file will be written. The file will be written using the Netscape cookie
file format. If you set the file name to a single dash, "-", the cookies will
be written to stdout.
-.B NOTE
+This command line option will activate the cookie engine that makes curl
+record and use cookies. Another way to activate it is to use the \fI-b,
+--cookie\fP option.
+
If the cookie jar can't be created or written to, the whole curl operation
won't fail or even report an error clearly. Using -v will get a warning
displayed, but that is the only visible feedback you get about this possibly