From 74bb59fa5792ac1639930a623a42089ee6a6a6d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:03:26 +0000 Subject: clarify the COOKIE option a bit --- docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3