/* This example shows an inline import of a cookie in Netscape format.
You can set the cookie as HttpOnly to prevent XSS attacks by prepending
#HttpOnly_ to the hostname. That may be useful if the cookie will later
be imported by a browser.
*/

#define SEP  “\t”  /* Tab separates the fields */

char *my_cookie =
  “example.com”    /* Hostname */
  SEP “FALSE”      /* Include subdomains */
  SEP “/”          /* Path */
  SEP “FALSE”      /* Secure */
  SEP “0”          /* Expiry in epoch time format. 0 == Session */
  SEP “foo”        /* Name */
  SEP “bar”;       /* Value */

/* my_cookie is imported immediately via CURLOPT_COOKIELIST.
*/
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIELIST, my_cookie);

/* The list of cookies in cookies.txt will not be imported until right
before a transfer is performed. Cookies in the list that have the same
hostname, path and name as in my_cookie are skipped. That is because
libcurl has already imported my_cookie and it’s considered a “live”
cookie. A live cookie won’t be replaced by one read from a file.
*/
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, “cookies.txt”);  /* import */

/* Cookies are exported after curl_easy_cleanup is called. The server
may have added, deleted or modified cookies by then. The cookies that
were skipped on import are not exported.
*/
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, “cookies.txt”);  /* export */

curl_easy_perform(curl);  /* cookies imported from cookies.txt */

curl_easy_cleanup(curl);  /* cookies exported to cookies.txt */