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Re: Easy "POST" question but cannot figure it out!!

From: Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:52:11 -0600

On Nov 16, 2007 12:34 AM, <jon_at_linertia.com> wrote:

>
> When I run the curl operation on the website of interest, i.e.
>
> curl -vc cookie "www.example.com"
>
> the verbose output http header gives me:
>
> Added cookie session=XXXX for domain example.net, path /, expire 0
> < Set-Cookie: session=XXXX path=/; domain=.example.net
> * Added cookie PHPSESSID=AAAA for domain www.example.net, path /, expire 0
> < Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=AAAA; path=/
> * Replaced cookie session=YYYY for domain example.net, path /, expire 0 <
> Set-Cookie: session=YYYY path=/; domain=.example.net
>
> Question: WHY is it replacing my cookie XXXX with YYYY? I need my cookie
> to be XXXX for logging in to work.

The Set-Cookie lines are all coming from the server. Curl is correctly
updating its cookie collection because the server is telling it to.

Ralph Mitchell
Received on 2007-11-16