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53 <p class="level0"><a name="NAME"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">NAME</h2>
54 <p class="level0">CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE - file name to read cookies from <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SYNOPSIS</h2>
55 <p class="level0">#include <curl/curl.h>
56 <p class="level0">CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, char *filename); <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DESCRIPTION</h2>
57 <p class="level0">Pass a pointer to a zero terminated string as parameter. It should point to the file name of your file holding cookie data to read. The cookie data can be in either the old Netscape / Mozilla cookie data format or just regular HTTP headers (Set-Cookie style) dumped to a file.
58 <p class="level0">It also enables the cookie engine, making libcurl parse and send cookies on subsequent requests with this handle.
59 <p class="level0">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.
60 <p class="level0">This option only <span Class="bold">reads</span> cookies. To make libcurl write cookies to file, see <a Class="emphasis" href="./CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR.html">CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR</a>.
61 <p class="level0">Exercise caution if you are using this option and multiple transfers may occur. If you use the Set-Cookie format and don't specify a domain then the cookie is sent for any domain (even after redirects are followed) and cannot be modified by a server-set cookie. If a server sets a cookie of the same name then both will be sent on a future transfer to that server, likely not what you intended. To address these issues set a domain in Set-Cookie (doing that will include sub-domains) or use the Netscape format.
62 <p class="level0">If you use this option multiple times, you just add more files to read. Subsequent files will add more cookies. <a name="DEFAULT"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DEFAULT</h2>
63 <p class="level0">NULL <a name="PROTOCOLS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">PROTOCOLS</h2>
64 <p class="level0">HTTP <a name="EXAMPLE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">EXAMPLE</h2>
65 <p class="level0">TODO <a name="AVAILABILITY"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">AVAILABILITY</h2>
66 <p class="level0">As long as HTTP is supported <a name="RETURN"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">RETURN VALUE</h2>
67 <p class="level0">Returns CURLE_OK if HTTP is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not. <a name="SEE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SEE ALSO</h2>
68 <p class="level0"><a Class="manpage" href="./CURLOPT_COOKIE.html">CURLOPT_COOKIE</a>, <a Class="manpage" href="./CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR.html">CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR</a><p class="roffit">
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