CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE(3)      curl_easy_setopt options      CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE(3)

NAME
       CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE - file name to read cookies from

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, char *file-
       name);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass a pointer to a zero terminated  string  as  parameter.  It  should
       point  to  the  file name of your file holding cookie data to read. The
       cookie data can be in either the old Netscape  /  Mozilla  cookie  data
       format  or  just  regular  HTTP  headers (Set-Cookie style) dumped to a
       file.

       It also enables the cookie engine, making libcurl parse and send  cook-
       ies on subsequent requests with this handle.

       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.

       This  option only reads cookies. To make libcurl write cookies to file,
       see CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR(3).

       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  fol-
       lowed)  and cannot be modified by a server-set cookie. If a server sets
       a cookie of the same name 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.

       If you use this option multiple times, you just add more files to read.
       Subsequent files will add more cookies.

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

DEFAULT
       NULL

PROTOCOLS
       HTTP

EXAMPLE
       TODO

AVAILABILITY
       As long as HTTP is supported

RETURN VALUE
       Returns CURLE_OK if HTTP is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_COOKIE(3), CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR(3),

libcurl 7.54.0                 December 21, 2016         CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE(3)