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   2 title: Cookie Handling
   3 author: m6w6
   4 tags:
   5 - PHP
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   7
   8 I noticed some _weirdance_ about how libcurl and thus pecl/http handles
   9 cookies.
  10
  11 I had to implement some changes which are only in CVS for now and which I'm
  12 going to outline here:
  13
  14 ```php
  15 $r = new HttpRequest("http://www.google.at/");
  16 $r->recordHistory = true;
  17 // we don't care about cookies by default
  18 // enable automatic recognition of cookies
  19 $r->enableCookies();
  20 $r->send();
  21 // received cookies will be sent on the next request
  22 $r->send();
  23 // reset those "auto" cookies
  24 // this needs at least libcurl >= v7.14.1
  25 $r->resetCookies();
  26 $r->send();
  27 echo $r->getHistory()->toString(true);
  28 ```
  29
  30 Beware that all this does not affect custom cookies set with
  31 [HttpRequest::setCookies](http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz#HttpRequest_setCookies)() and
  32 [HttpRequest::addCookies](http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz#HttpRequest_addCookies)().
  33 Custom cookies can always be unset by calling HttpRequest::setCookies().
  34
  35 A final note on using the **cookiestore** option:
  36
  37 ```php
  38 $r = new HttpRequest("http://www.google.at/");
  39 // load and save cookies from /tmp/cookies.txt
  40 // if 'cookiesession' is TRUE, session cookies
  41 // won't be loaded from the cookiestore
  42 $r->setOptions(array(
  43     "cookiesession" => TRUE,
  44     "cookiestore" => "/tmp/cookies.txt")
  45 );
  46 $r->send();
  47 ```
  48
  49 Note that using the cookiestore automatically enables libcurls cookie engine.
  50