cookie-jar.d: enphasize that this option is ONLY writing cookies

Reported-by: Dan Jacobson
Tweaked-by: Jay Satiro
Ref: #11642
Closes #11661
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Daniel Stenberg 2023-08-11 17:04:37 +02:00
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@ -19,9 +19,12 @@ written. The file will be written using the Netscape cookie file format. If
you set the file name to a single dash, "-", the cookies will be written to
stdout.
The file specified with --cookie-jar is only used for output. No cookies will
be read from the file. To read cookies, use the --cookie option. Both options
can specify the same file.
This command line option will activate the cookie engine that makes curl
record and use cookies. Another way to activate it is to use the --cookie
option.
record and use cookies. The --cookie option also activates it.
If the cookie jar cannot be created or written to, the whole curl operation
will not fail or even report an error clearly. Using --verbose will get a