GNURLINFO_COOKIELIST(3)

🍪 NAME 🍪

bestie, welcome to GNURLINFO_COOKIELIST(3). The main character here is CURLINFO_COOKIELIST — get all known cookies. that's the whole assignment, and it ate. 🍪✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <gnurl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_COOKIELIST,
                           struct curl_slist **cookies);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so you pass a pointer to a struct curl_slist *, and it receives a linked-list of all the cookies curl knows about — expired ones too, no filter, no cap. 💀

and like, don't forget to call curl_slist_free_all(3) on the list after it has been used. free your cookies, bestie. 🫶

if there are no cookies (cookies for the handle have not been enabled or simply none have been received), the struct curl_slist * will be set to point to NULL. lowkey peaceful.

since 7.43.0, cookies that were imported in the Set-Cookie format without a domain name are not exported by this option. iykyk. 🍓

🌐 PROTOCOLS 🌐

HTTP(S) — that's the vibe. 🌈

🧪 EXAMPLE 🧪

here's the code, bestie, copied exactly so you don't have to squint:

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");

  /* enable the cookie engine */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "");

  res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

  if(!res) {
    /* extract all known cookies */
    struct curl_slist *cookies = NULL;
    res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_COOKIELIST, &cookies);
    if(!res && cookies) {
      /* a linked list of cookies in cookie file format */
      struct curl_slist *each = cookies;
      while(each) {
        printf("%s\n", each->data);
        each = each->next;
      }
      /* we must free these cookies when we're done */
      curl_slist_free_all(cookies);
    }
  }
  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}

🕰️ AVAILABILITY 🕰️

added in 7.14.1. periodt. 💅

🔁 RETURN VALUE 🔁

• returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported.
• returns CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

the little squad to check out: curl_easy_getinfo(3), curl_easy_setopt(3), CURLOPT_COOKIELIST(3), — yes bestie, that trailing comma is right there in the original, i don't make the rules. 🎀

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made with libcurl 7.44.0, dated 1 Sep 2015 — mwah, love u, go get those cookies 🍪💖