Re: Are --load-cookies and --save-cookies effective at the same time?

[Peng Yu]

I may have made a mistake on my end. Yes, both options can have the
file without problems.

On 2/14/20, Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Definitely, just tested with wget 1.20.3:
>
> <no cookies.txt exists>
> $ wget --load-cookie=cookies.txt --save-cookies=cookies.txt google.com
> $ sum cookies.txt
> 50297     1
>
> $ wget --load-cookie=cookies.txt --save-cookies=cookies.txt google.de
> $ sum cookies.txt
> 27483     1
>
> What version of wget do you use ?
>
> Regards, Tim
>
> On 14.02.20 23:11, Peng Yu wrote:
>> Can the options for --load-cookies and --save-cookies be the same? It
>> seems that there are problems when they are the same. When I change
>> them to be different, then it is OK.
>>
>>
>> On 2/14/20, Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Yes, you can combine the options as you assumed.
>>>
>>> Not sure why the cookies.txt isn't updated. You can run with --debug and
>>> maybe that gives you a hint.
>>>
>>> Regards, Tim
>>>
>>> On 14.02.20 22:46, Peng Yu wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I want to load cookies at the beginning of wget run and save the
>>>> cookies at the finish.
>>>>
>>>> I specified the following options. But it seems that the timestamp of
>>>> cookies.txt file is not changed at the finish of wget run. Is it
>>>> normal? Or if the cookies.txt file is not changed, the time stamp will
>>>> not be updated? Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> --load-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies
>>>> cookies.txt
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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Regards,
Peng