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diff --git a/docs/HTTP-COOKIES.md b/docs/HTTP-COOKIES.md index 9d1e099d1..c7c116b10 100644 --- a/docs/HTTP-COOKIES.md +++ b/docs/HTTP-COOKIES.md @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ Cookies are either "session cookies" which typically are forgotten when the session is over which is often translated to equal when browser quits, or - the cookies aren't session cookies they have expiration dates after which + the cookies are not session cookies they have expiration dates after which the client will throw them away. Cookies are set to the client with the Set-Cookie: header and are sent to servers with the Cookie: header. - For a very long time, the only spec explaining how to use cookies was the + For a long time, the only spec explaining how to use cookies was the original [Netscape spec from 1994](https://curl.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html). In 2011, [RFC6265](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6265.txt) was finally @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The cookie file format is text based and stores one cookie per line. Lines that start with `#` are treated as comments. - Each line that each specifies a single cookie consists of seven text fields + Each line that specifies a single cookie consists of seven text fields separated with TAB characters. A valid line must end with a newline character. @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ `-b, --cookie` tell curl a file to read cookies from and start the cookie engine, or if it - isn't a file it will pass on the given string. -b name=var works and so does + is not a file it will pass on the given string. -b name=var works and so does -b cookiefile. `-j, --junk-session-cookies` |