cookies: create the cookiejar even if no cookies to save

Important for when the file is going to be read again and thus must not
contain old contents!

Adds test 327 to verify.

Reported-by: daboul on github
Fixes #3299
Closes #3300

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 34 deletions

diff --git a/lib/cookie.c b/lib/cookie.c
index 5b7ab6633..d8655f790 100644
--- a/lib/cookie.c
+++ b/lib/cookie.c
@@ -1456,22 +1456,9 @@ static int cookie_output(struct CookieInfo *c, const char *dumphere)
   unsigned int j;
   struct Cookie **array;
 
-  if((NULL == c) || (0 == c->numcookies))
-    /* If there are no known cookies, we don't write or even create any
-       destination file */
-    return 0;
-
   /* at first, remove expired cookies */
   remove_expired(c);
 
-  /* make sure we still have cookies after expiration */
-  if(0 == c->numcookies)
-    return 0;
-
-  array = malloc(sizeof(struct Cookie *) * c->numcookies);
-  if(!array)
-    return 1;
-
   if(!strcmp("-", dumphere)) {
     /* use stdout */
     out = stdout;
@@ -1480,7 +1467,6 @@ static int cookie_output(struct CookieInfo *c, const char *dumphere)
   else {
     out = fopen(dumphere, FOPEN_WRITETEXT);
     if(!out) {
-      free(array);
       return 1; /* failure */
     }
   }
@@ -1490,32 +1476,40 @@ static int cookie_output(struct CookieInfo *c, const char *dumphere)
         "# This file was generated by libcurl! Edit at your own risk.\n\n",
         out);
 
-  j = 0;
-  for(i = 0; i < COOKIE_HASH_SIZE; i++) {
-    for(co = c->cookies[i]; co; co = co->next) {
-      if(!co->domain)
-        continue;
-      array[j++] = co;
-    }
-  }
-
-  qsort(array, c->numcookies, sizeof(struct Cookie *), cookie_sort_ct);
-
-  for(i = 0; i < j; i++) {
-    format_ptr = get_netscape_format(array[i]);
-    if(format_ptr == NULL) {
-      fprintf(out, "#\n# Fatal libcurl error\n");
-      free(array);
+  if(c->numcookies) {
+    array = malloc(sizeof(struct Cookie *) * c->numcookies);
+    if(!array) {
       if(!use_stdout)
         fclose(out);
       return 1;
     }
-    fprintf(out, "%s\n", format_ptr);
-    free(format_ptr);
-  }
 
-  free(array);
+    j = 0;
+    for(i = 0; i < COOKIE_HASH_SIZE; i++) {
+      for(co = c->cookies[i]; co; co = co->next) {
+        if(!co->domain)
+          continue;
+        array[j++] = co;
+      }
+    }
 
+    qsort(array, c->numcookies, sizeof(struct Cookie *), cookie_sort_ct);
+
+    for(i = 0; i < j; i++) {
+      format_ptr = get_netscape_format(array[i]);
+      if(format_ptr == NULL) {
+        fprintf(out, "#\n# Fatal libcurl error\n");
+        free(array);
+        if(!use_stdout)
+          fclose(out);
+        return 1;
+      }
+      fprintf(out, "%s\n", format_ptr);
+      free(format_ptr);
+    }
+
+    free(array);
+  }
   if(!use_stdout)
     fclose(out);