Commit a11c5f32 authored by Jay Satiro's avatar Jay Satiro
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curl.1: HTTP headers for --cookie must be Set-Cookie style 

Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/666


Reported-by: default avatar <baumanj@users.noreply.github.com>
parent be2db606

docs/curl.1

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@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ read previously stored cookie lines from, which should be used in this session 
if they match. Using this method also activates the cookie engine which will

make curl record incoming cookies too, which may be handy if you're using this

in combination with the \fI-L, --location\fP option. The file format of the

file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or the Netscape/Mozilla

cookie file format.

file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers (Set-Cookie style) or

the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format.



The file specified with \fI-b, --cookie\fP is only used as input. No cookies

will be written to the file. To store cookies, use the \fI-c, --cookie-jar\fP