Send cookies with curl

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I am using curl to retrieve cookies like so   curl -c cookies txt url   then I parse the cookie I want from the cookies txt file and send the request again with the cookie  curl -b  name value  url    Is this the correct way to send the cookie  Is there a simpler way

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Very annoying  no cookie file exmpale on the official website https   ec haxx se http http-cookies  Finnaly  I find it does not work  if your file content is just copyied like this foo1 bar foo2 bar2  I gusess the format must looks  the style said by  Agust   S  nchez   You can test it by -c to create a cookie file on a website  So try this way  it works curl -H  quot Cookie  cat   my cookie  quot    http   xxxx com  You can just copy the cookie from chrome console network tab

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example com TRUE   FALSE 1560211200 MY VARIABLE MY VALUE  The cookies file format apparently consists of a line per cookie and each line consists of the following seven tab-delimited fields    domain - The domain that created AND that can read the variable   flag - A TRUE FALSE value indicating if all machines within a given domain can access the variable  This value is set automatically by the browser  depending on the value you set for domain   path - The path within the domain that the variable is valid for   secure - A TRUE FALSE value indicating if a secure connection with the domain is needed to access the variable   expiration - The UNIX time that the variable will expire on  UNIX time is defined as the number of seconds since Jan 1  1970 00 00 00 GMT   name - The name of the variable   value - The value of the variable    From http   www cookiecentral com faq  3 5

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if you have Firebug installed on Firefox  just open the url  In the network panel  right-click and select Copy as cURL  You can see all curl parameters for this web call

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You can use -b to specify a cookie file to read the cookies from as well  In many situations using -c and -b to the same file is what you want  curl -b cookies txt -c cookies txt http   example com  Further Using only -c will make curl start with no cookies but still parse and understand cookies and if redirects or multiple URLs are used  it will then use the received cookies within the single invoke before it writes them all to the output file in the end  The -b option feeds a set of initial cookies into curl so that it knows about them at start  and it activates curl s cookie parser so that it ll parse and use incoming cookies as well  See Also The cookies chapter in the Everything curl book

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