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Asked: 2026-05-31T13:22:20+00:00

I need to send a simple cookie using RCurl. The cookie is AcceptDisclaimer=yes I

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I need to send a simple cookie using RCurl.
The cookie is “AcceptDisclaimer=yes”
I tried doing this:

curl <- getCurlHandle()
curlSetOpt(cookiejar='cookies.txt', curl=curl)
resultingWebPage <- postForm(website, x = result,  curl = curl)

cookies.txt contains AcceptDisclaimer=yes

However, RCurl doesn’t seem to send the cookie !

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    cookie = 'cookiefile.txt'   
curl  =  getCurlHandle ( cookiefile = cookie,
                         cookiejar = cookie,
                         useragent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en - US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6"
)

# code to do something with web page

rm(curl)
gc()

    Use of cookiefile will load the cookie stored in the file.
    Use of cookiejar will use a temporary cookie

    calling rm(curl) and gc() will remove the curl session and cause the cookie file to be written to disk.

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