aggregate: Read cookies from ~/.ikiwiki/cookies by default. Also, the cookiejar configuration setting can be used by other plugins to provide a custom `cookie_jar` object for LWP::UserAgent. (Thanks, schmonz)

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diff --git a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn
index 2925b6fba..75123d923 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn
@@ -48,3 +48,10 @@ plugin as well as aggregate itself, since feed entries will be stored as
 HTML, and as first-class wiki pages -- each one generates
 a separate HTML page in the output, and they can even be edited. This
 option is provided only for backwards compatability.
+
+## cookies
+
+The `cookiejar` option can be used to configure how [[!cpan LWP::UserAgent]]
+handles cookies. The default is to read them from a file
+`~/.ikiwiki/cookies`, which can be populated using standard perl cookie
+tools like [[!cpan HTTP::Cookies]].
diff --git a/doc/plugins/aggregate/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/aggregate/discussion.mdwn
index 80788fb1b..028775ec8 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/aggregate/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/aggregate/discussion.mdwn
@@ -133,3 +133,5 @@ the user agent to be programmatically manipulated? --[[schmonz]]
 >>> `$config{cookies}` (and using it in the aggregate plugin) should
 >>> be safe, might help people in typical cases, and won't prevent
 >>> further enhancements for less typical cases. --[[schmonz]]
+
+>>>> Ok, done. Called it cookiejar. --[[Joey]]