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<\/p>\nWhenever libcurl saves cookies to a file, it saves them in the old “Netscape cookie format”.<\/p>\n
Since ages ago libcurl has written a comment at the top of that cookie file (the file we refer to as the cookie jar in curl lingo) that explains that it is a cookie netscape cookie file format and then a URL pointing to the original Netscape document<\/a> describing what cookies are and how they work. To be perfectly honest, we pointed to a local copy of that document since the original is since long removed and gone and now only available through archive.org.<\/p>\n The web page pointed to were never a perfect match since the page never explained the file format or its use, only the cookie protocol – as it was originally described to work and not even like cookies works today<\/a>.<\/p>\n Starting with curl 7.27.0<\/strong>, it will write the header to point to another URL: http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/docs\/http-cookies.html<\/a><\/p>\n Whenever libcurl saves cookies to a file, it saves them in the old “Netscape cookie format”. Since ages ago libcurl has written a comment at the top of that cookie file (the file we refer to as the cookie jar in curl lingo) that explains that it is a cookie netscape cookie file format and … Continue reading curl’s new HTTP cookies docs<\/span> ![\"cURL\"](\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/curl-keywords300.jpg\" "\\"cURL\\"")
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