NAME

       CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE - file name to read cookies from

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, char *filename);

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  cookies  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 followed) 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

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

         /* get cookies from an existing file */
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "/tmp/cookies.txt");

         ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);

         curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
       }

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),