CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION(3)

1CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION(3)   curl_easy_setopt options   CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION(3)
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NAME

6       CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION - start a new cookie session
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SYNOPSIS

9       #include <curl/curl.h>
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11       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, long init);
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DESCRIPTION

14       Pass  a  long  set to 1 to mark this as a new cookie "session". It will
15       force libcurl to ignore all cookies it is about to load that are  "ses‐
16       sion  cookies"  from  the  previous session. By default, libcurl always
17       stores and loads all cookies, independent if they are  session  cookies
18       or  not.  Session  cookies are cookies without expiry date and they are
19       meant to be alive and existing for this "session" only.
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21       A "session" is usually defined in browser land for as long as you  have
22       your browser up, more or less.
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DEFAULT

25       0
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PROTOCOLS

28       HTTP
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EXAMPLE

31       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
32       if(curl) {
33         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");
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35         /* new "session", do not load session cookies */
36         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 1L);
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38         /* get the (non session) cookies from this file */
39         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "/tmp/cookies.txt");
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41         ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
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43         curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
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AVAILABILITY

47       Along with HTTP
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RETURN VALUE

50       Returns CURLE_OK
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