CURLOPT_COOKIE(3)					     curl_easy_setopt options						 CURLOPT_COOKIE(3)

NAME

       CURLOPT_COOKIE - set contents of HTTP Cookie header

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

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

DESCRIPTION

       Pass  a	pointer  to  a	zero terminated string as parameter. It will be used to set a cookie in the HTTP request. The format of the string
       should be NAME=CONTENTS, where NAME is the cookie name and CONTENTS is what the cookie should contain.

       If you need to set multiple cookies, set them all using a single option concatenated like this: "name1=content1; name2=content2;" etc.

       This option sets the cookie header explicitly in the outgoing request(s). If multiple requests are done	due  to  authentication,  followed
       redirections or similar, they will all get this cookie passed on.

       The  cookies  set by this option are separate from the internal cookie storage held by the cookie engine and will not be modified by it. If
       you enable the cookie engine and either you've imported a cookie of the same name (e.g. 'foo') or the server has set one, it will  have	no
       effect  on the cookies you set here.  A request to the server will send both the 'foo' held by the cookie engine and the 'foo' held by this
       option. To set a cookie that is instead held by the cookie engine and can be modified by the server use CURLOPT_COOKIELIST(3).

       Using this option multiple times will only make the latest string override the previous ones.

       This option will not enable the cookie engine. Use CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE(3) or CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR(3) to  enable  parsing  and  sending  cookies
       automatically.

       The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.

DEFAULT

       NULL, no cookies

PROTOCOLS

       HTTP

EXAMPLE

       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
	 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");

	 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIE, "tool=curl; fun=yes;");

	 curl_easy_perform(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY

       If HTTP is enabled

RETURN VALUE

       Returns CURLE_OK if HTTP is enabled, 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_COOKIELIST(3), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3),

libcurl 7.54.0							 December 21, 2016						 CURLOPT_COOKIE(3)