From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:23:07 +0000 (+0200) Subject: --cookie-jar: activates the cookie engine X-Git-Tag: curl-7_22_0~70 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e18c3f447e87fa82157f1ca811c0bc30d072bcbd;p=curl --cookie-jar: activates the cookie engine --- diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 92835c208..d6fb9aa22 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -194,7 +194,10 @@ no file will be written. The file will be written using the Netscape cookie file format. If you set the file name to a single dash, "-", the cookies will be written to stdout. -.B NOTE +This command line option will activate the cookie engine that makes curl +record and use cookies. Another way to activate it is to use the \fI-b, +--cookie\fP option. + If the cookie jar can't be created or written to, the whole curl operation won't fail or even report an error clearly. Using -v will get a warning displayed, but that is the only visible feedback you get about this possibly