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),