CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.md: clarify when the cookies are loaded

Closes #18924

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.md b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.md
index 676d7285526018dc6d3b828349d5af5a87b60fb3..a4baf8febf46ecb4483294bbf9bf5f9d95074993 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.md
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE.md
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ If you use this option multiple times, you add more files to read cookies
 from. Setting this option to NULL disables the cookie engine and clears the
 list of files to read cookies from.
 
+The cookies are loaded from the specified file(s) when the transfer starts,
+not when this option is set.
+
 # SECURITY CONCERNS
 
 This document previously mentioned how specifying a non-existing file can also