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RE: Beaten by cahoot.com

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:04:13 +0200 (MET DST)

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Richard Cooper wrote:

> > -j/--junk-session-cookies Ignore session cookies read from file (H)
> >
> > Or doesn't that do what you want?
>
> -j doesn't do anything here. Both cookies still get sent to the server. How
> can I tell if a cookie a session cookie rather just a cookie called
> sessionid?

Session cookies are cookies without an expire time, and they are meant to be
deleted when the browser exists. Thus the word "session". Curl stores such
cookies just like all other cookies, offering the -j option to simulate a
restarted browser (cookie wise).

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2002-10-16