From d92a9bd4ecf53c4e410c57eeae315242c1db5790 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 23:25:12 +0100 Subject: cookie.d: mention that "-" as filename means stdin Reported-by: Dongliang Mu Fixes #2410 --- docs/cmdline-opts/cookie.d | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs/cmdline-opts/cookie.d') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3