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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/GNURLOPT_COOKIESESSION.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/GNURLOPT_COOKIESESSION.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..042854681 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/GNURLOPT_COOKIESESSION.3 @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +.\" ************************************************************************** +.\" * _ _ ____ _ +.\" * Project ___| | | | _ \| | +.\" * / __| | | | |_) | | +.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ +.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| +.\" * +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * +.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which +.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms +.\" * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. +.\" * +.\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell +.\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is +.\" * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file. +.\" * +.\" * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY +.\" * KIND, either express or implied. +.\" * +.\" ************************************************************************** +.\" +.TH CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" +.SH NAME +CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION \- start a new cookie session +.SH SYNOPSIS +#include <gnurl/curl.h> + +CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, long init); +.SH DESCRIPTION +Pass a long set to 1 to mark this as a new cookie "session". It will force +libcurl to ignore all cookies it is about to load that are "session cookies" +from the previous session. By default, libcurl always stores and loads all +cookies, independent if they are session cookies or not. Session cookies are +cookies without expiry date and they are meant to be alive and existing for +this "session" only. + +A "session" is usually defined in browser land for as long as you have your +browser up, more or less. +.SH DEFAULT +0 +.SH PROTOCOLS +HTTP +.SH EXAMPLE +.nf +CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); +if(curl) { + curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/foo.bin"); + + /* new "session", don't load session cookies */ + curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 1L); + + /* get the (non session) cookies from this file */ + curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "/tmp/cookies.txt"); + + ret = curl_easy_perform(curl); + + curl_easy_cleanup(curl); +} +.fi +.SH AVAILABILITY +Along with HTTP +.SH RETURN VALUE +Returns CURLE_OK +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE "(3), " CURLOPT_COOKIE "(3), " |