Unverified Commit d974b39a authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3: "-" as file name means stdin 

Reported-by: Aron Bergman
Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2018-03/0049.html

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docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.3

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.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.

.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.

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.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which

.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
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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.

cookies. If you tell libcurl the file name is "-" (just a single minus sign),

libcurl will instead read from stdin.



This option only \fBreads\fP cookies. To make libcurl write cookies to file,

see \fICURLOPT_COOKIEJAR(3)\fP.