From: Josh Soref Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 17:11:14 +0000 (-0400) Subject: dump-header.d: Drop suggestion to use for cookie storage X-Git-Tag: curl-7_78_0~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=df41598f3cc0182c1f7f1b945a4fb68972f569ab;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git dump-header.d: Drop suggestion to use for cookie storage Since --cookie-jar is the preferred way to store cookies, no longer suggest using --dump-header to do so. Co-authored-by: Daniel Stenberg Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7414 --- diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/dump-header.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/dump-header.d index 8449dfe851..aa3bd9e33b 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/dump-header.d +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/dump-header.d @@ -6,14 +6,8 @@ Protocols: HTTP FTP See-also: output Category: http ftp --- -Write the received protocol headers to the specified file. - -This option is handy to use when you want to store the headers that an HTTP -site sends to you. Cookies from the headers could then be read in a second -curl invocation by using the --cookie option! The --cookie-jar option is a -better way to store cookies. - -If no headers are received, the use of this option will create an empty file. +Write the received protocol headers to the specified file. If no headers are +received, the use of this option will create an empty file. When used in FTP, the FTP server response lines are considered being "headers" and thus are saved there.