Cookie Handling

I noticed some weirdance about how libcurl and thus pecl/http handles cookies.

I had to implement some changes which are only in CVS for now and which I'm going to outline here:

<?php
$r = new HttpRequest("http://www.google.at/");
$r->recordHistory = true;
// we don't care about cookies by default
// enable automatic recognition of cookies
$r->enableCookies();
$r->send();
// received cookies will be sent on the next request
$r->send();
// reset those "auto" cookies
// this needs at least libcurl >= v7.14.1
$r->resetCookies();
$r->send();
echo $r->getHistory()->toString(true);
?>

Beware that all this does not affect custom cookies set with HttpRequest::setCookies() and HttpRequest::addCookies(). Custom cookies can always be unset by calling HttpRequest::setCookies().

A final note on using the cookiestore option:

<?php
$r = new HttpRequest("http://www.google.at/");
// load and save cookies from /tmp/cookies.txt
// if 'cookiesession' is TRUE, session cookies
// won't be loaded from the cookiestore
$r->setOptions(array(
    "cookiesession" => TRUE,
    "cookiestore" => "/tmp/cookies.txt")
);
$r->send();
?>

Note that using the cookiestore automatically enables libcurls cookie engine.