From 9d1a0922b7b1eadd0f36167641f78d24a819b62d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 22:53:05 +0100 Subject: HTTP-COOKIES.md: describe the cookie file format ... and refer to that file from from CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3 and CURLOPT_COOKIELIST.3 Assisted-by: Jay Satiro Reported-by: bsammon on github Fixes #4805 Closes #4806 --- docs/HTTP-COOKIES.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/HTTP-COOKIES.md') diff --git a/docs/HTTP-COOKIES.md b/docs/HTTP-COOKIES.md index 06790f8a7..62367c2a9 100644 --- a/docs/HTTP-COOKIES.md +++ b/docs/HTTP-COOKIES.md @@ -43,6 +43,24 @@ When libcurl saves a cookiejar, it creates a file header of its own in which there is a URL mention that will link to the web version of this document. +## Cookie file format + + The cookie file format is text based and stores one cookie per line. Lines + that start with `#` are treated as comments. + + Each line that each specifies a single cookie consists of seven text fields + separated with TAB characters. + + |Field| Type | Example | Meaning | + |---|---------|-------------|-----------------------------------------------| + | 0 | string | example.com | Domain name | + | 1 | boolean | FALSE | Include subdomains | + | 2 | string | /foobar/ | Path | + | 3 | boolean | TRUE | Send/receive over HTTPS only | + | 4 | number | 1462299217 | Expires at – seconds since Jan 1st 1970, or 0 | + | 5 | string | person | Name of the cookie | + | 6 | string | daniel | Value of the cookie | + ## Cookies with curl the command line tool curl has a full cookie "engine" built in. If you just activate it, you can -- cgit v1.2.1