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-style headers 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.

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),