On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Jerry G. Chiuan wrote:

> > But since sending in a zero-length file name works too

> It doesn't work in my case, VC++ pops up "fopen( ) error" could you please
> tell me how to specify "empty" file?

By using a file name like "". If this doesn't work, can you please make a
patch and post it here?

> I don't want to specify a file which I know not to exist, what if somebody
> accidentally creates a file with exactly the same absolute path!

Most systems have path/file names a user can't create.

> I mean, if we can specify "empty" file for libcurl to "simply turn on cookie
> parser" instead of reading from existing cookie file, we don't need to
> mention "pass file which doesn't exist" for *this purpose*

Well, if an empty file name works for doing this, the existing means still
work. Thus, I think we should still mention it, but we can of course change
the wording in favour of the zero-length file name approach. If that works.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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