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diff --git a/doc/plugins/aggregate/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/aggregate/discussion.mdwn index a3336ee08..80788fb1b 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/aggregate/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/aggregate/discussion.mdwn @@ -121,3 +121,15 @@ the user agent to be programmatically manipulated? --[[schmonz]] >> Pong.. I'd be happier with a more 100% solution that let cookies be used >> w/o needing to write a custom plugin to do it. --[[Joey]] + +>>> According to LWP::UserAgent, for the common case, a complete +>>> and valid configuration for `$config{cookies}` would be `{ file => +>>> "$ENV{HOME}/.cookies.txt" }`. In the more common case of not needing +>>> to prime one's cookies, `cookie_jar` can be `undef` (that's the +>>> default). In my less common case, the cookies are generated by +>>> visiting a couple magic URLs, which would be trivial to turn into +>>> config options, except that these particular URLs rely on SPNEGO +>>> and so LWP::Authen::Negotiate has to be loaded. So I think adding +>>> `$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]] |