1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Short: c 5Long: cookie-jar 6Arg: <filename> 7Protocols: HTTP 8Help: Save cookies to <filename> after operation 9Category: http 10Added: 7.9 11Multi: single 12See-also: 13 - cookie 14Example: 15 - -c store-here.txt $URL 16 - -c store-here.txt -b read-these $URL 17--- 18 19# `--cookie-jar` 20 21Specify to which file you want curl to write all cookies after a completed 22operation. Curl writes all cookies from its in-memory cookie storage to the 23given file at the end of operations. Even if no cookies are known, a file is 24created so that it removes any formerly existing cookies from the file. The 25file uses the Netscape cookie file format. If you set the filename to a single 26minus, "-", the cookies are written to stdout. 27 28The file specified with --cookie-jar is only used for output. No cookies are 29read from the file. To read cookies, use the --cookie option. Both options 30can specify the same file. 31 32This command line option activates the cookie engine that makes curl record 33and use cookies. The --cookie option also activates it. 34 35If the cookie jar cannot be created or written to, the whole curl operation 36does not fail or even report an error clearly. Using --verbose gets a warning 37displayed, but that is the only visible feedback you get about this possibly 38lethal situation. 39
