note 85747 modified in function.curl-setopt by danbrown

Some of you may noticed that curl is not transferring cookies between sequent calls to a host. This is because you must activate curl`s "cookie parser". That is achieved using an external file like this: <?php curl_setopt(CURLOPT_FILE, '/tmp/cookies_file'); ?> If you don`t need to read any cookies but you still want the "cookie parser" use the same code but with dummy file with no data like '/dev/null', that way curl is storing cookies internaly per curl_handle: <?php curl_setopt(CURLOPT_FILE, '/dev/null'); ?> [EDIT BY danbrown AT php DOT net: In a note dated 26-SEP-08, (adamplumb AT gmail DOT com) offered the following addendum: [It] should really be CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE. I was bitten by this issue myself with code that previously worked for logging into a website and posting a form. However, at some point the code just stopped working, and I eventually found that I needed to set this option to /dev/null for it to work. ] --was-- Some of you may noticed that curl is not transferring cookies between sequent calls to a host. This is because you must activate curl`s "cookie parser". That is achieved using an external file like this: <?php curl_setopt(CURLOPT_FILE, '/tmp/cookies_file'); ?> If you don`t need to read any cookies but you still want the "cookie parser" use the same code but with dummy file with no data like '/dev/null', that way curl is storing cookies internaly per curl_handle: <?php curl_setopt(CURLOPT_FILE, '/dev/null'); ?> http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php