Any way to keep curl's cookies in memory and not on disk

Question

I\'m doing some cURL work in php 5.3.0.

I\'m wondering if there is any way to tell the curl handle/object to keep the cookies in memory (assuming I\'m reusing the sa

Answer 1

Just set CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE to a file that doesn't exist, usually an empty string is the best option. Then DON'T set CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, this is the trick. This will prevent a file from being written but the cookies will stay in memory. I just tested this and it works (my test: send http auth data to a URL that redirects you to a login URL that authenticates the request, then redirects you back to the original URL with a cookie).