From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:03:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: clarify the COOKIE option a bit
X-Git-Tag: upstream/7.37.1~7920
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=74bb59fa5792ac1639930a623a42089ee6a6a6d7;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fcurl.git

clarify the COOKIE option a bit
---

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index bcea246..81dac8d 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