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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2018-03-13 13:04:12 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2018-03-13 13:04:12 +0100
commitd974b39a9e2fd61cc9eb15250aaec0ed1f029edf (patch)
tree04fd9a840a34dbc911b0010d0f20ef8d45339cc5
parent98eee3396d7e225d74208cc13c21dce853b10082 (diff)
downloadcurl-d974b39a9e2fd61cc9eb15250aaec0ed1f029edf.tar.gz
CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3: "-" as file name means stdin
Reported-by: Aron Bergman Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2018-03/0049.html [ci skip]
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.35
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3
index 457d94470..fb33e41f0 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ subsequent requests with this handle.
Given an empty or non-existing file or by passing the empty string ("") to
this option, you can enable the cookie engine without reading any initial
-cookies.
+cookies. If you tell libcurl the file name is "-" (just a single minus sign),
+libcurl will instead read from stdin.
This option only \fBreads\fP cookies. To make libcurl write cookies to file,
see \fICURLOPT_COOKIEJAR(3)\fP.