CURLOPT_COOKIELIST(3)					     curl_easy_setopt options					     CURLOPT_COOKIELIST(3)

NAME

       CURLOPT_COOKIELIST - add to or manipulate cookies held in memory

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_COOKIELIST,
				 char *cookie);

DESCRIPTION

       Pass a char * to a cookie string.

       Such  a	cookie	can  be either a single line in Netscape / Mozilla format or just regular HTTP-style header (Set-Cookie: ...) format. This
       will also enable the cookie engine. This adds that single cookie to the internal cookie store.

       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 (or maybe you've imported one) 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 as
       shown in EXAMPLE.

       Additionally, there are commands available that perform actions if you pass in these exact strings:

       ALL    erases all cookies held in memory

       SESS   erases all session cookies held in memory

       FLUSH  writes all known cookies to the file specified by CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR(3)

       RELOAD loads all cookies from the files specified by CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE(3)

DEFAULT

       NULL

PROTOCOLS

       HTTP

EXAMPLE

       /* This example shows an inline import of a cookie in Netscape format.
       You can set the cookie as HttpOnly to prevent XSS attacks by prepending
       #HttpOnly_ to the hostname. That may be useful if the cookie will later
       be imported by a browser.
       */

       #define SEP  "	"  /* Tab separates the fields */

       char *my_cookie =
	 "example.com"	  /* Hostname */
	 SEP "FALSE"	  /* Include subdomains */
	 SEP "/"	  /* Path */
	 SEP "FALSE"	  /* Secure */
	 SEP "0"	  /* Expiry in epoch time format. 0 == Session */
	 SEP "foo"	  /* Name */
	 SEP "bar";	  /* Value */

       /* my_cookie is imported immediately via CURLOPT_COOKIELIST.
       */
       curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIELIST, my_cookie);

       /* The list of cookies in cookies.txt will not be imported until right
       before a transfer is performed. Cookies in the list that have the same
       hostname, path and name as in my_cookie are skipped. That is because
       libcurl has already imported my_cookie and it's considered a "live"
       cookie. A live cookie won't be replaced by one read from a file.
       */
       curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookies.txt");  /* import */

       /* Cookies are exported after curl_easy_cleanup is called. The server
       may have added, deleted or modified cookies by then. The cookies that
       were skipped on import are not exported.
       */
       curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookies.txt");  /* export */

       curl_easy_perform(curl);  /* cookies imported from cookies.txt */

       curl_easy_cleanup(curl);  /* cookies exported to cookies.txt */

AVAILABILITY

       ALL was added in 7.14.1

       SESS was added in 7.15.4

       FLUSH was added in 7.17.1

       RELOAD was added in 7.39.0

RETURN VALUE

       Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.

SEE ALSO

       CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE(3), CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR(3), CURLOPT_COOKIE(3), CURLINFO_COOKIELIST(3),

libcurl 7.54.0							  April 26, 2016					     CURLOPT_COOKIELIST(3)