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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2008-04-10 09:03:26 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2008-04-10 09:03:26 +0000
commit74bb59fa5792ac1639930a623a42089ee6a6a6d7 (patch)
tree53c2299ec08c1c7e5fcadf791af12ba1baff1a8a /docs/libcurl
parentc97d112b30ad748cdbcef61a21e235f3756558cd (diff)
clarify the COOKIE option a bit
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.34
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index bcea2466a..81dac8d57 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -856,6 +856,10 @@ option and thus you need to concatenate them all in one single string. Set
multiple cookies in one string like this: "name1=content1; name2=content2;"
etc.
+Note that this option sets the cookie header explictly in the outgoing
+request(s). If multiple requests are done due to authentication, followed
+redirections or similar, they will all get this cookie passed on.
+
Using this option multiple times will only make the latest string override the
previous ones.
.IP CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE