Unverified Commit d92a9bd4 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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cookie.d: mention that "-" as filename means stdin

Reported-by: Dongliang Mu
Fixes #2410
parent 27d7e511
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@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ If no '=' symbol is used in the argument, it is instead treated as a filename
to read previously stored cookie from. This option also activates the cookie
engine which will make curl record incoming cookies, which may be handy if
you're using this in combination with the --location option or do multiple URL
transfers on the same invoke.
transfers on the same invoke. If the file name is exactly a minus ("-"), curl
will instead the contents from stdin.

The file format of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers
(Set-Cookie style) or the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format.