Cookies require browser cooperation?

[pnoeric]

Here's a weird question-- I have a web page that I'm manually fetching via fsockopen to the web server, sending a "GET" command and "Head" line, then fgets'ing each resulting line into a buffer. Somehow it appears that the resulting web page is seeing a cookie set on my computer. Wouldn't that be impossible, since cookies require the browser (in this case, a few lines of PHP code) to actually honor/respond to cookie commands in the header?

Yours in unraveling the mysteries of HTTP,
-Eric

[pnoeric]

Oops, I meant I'm sending a GET command with a "Host:" line after it.

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Cookies are sent to your browser in the headers.
All you have to do is somehow store that cookie and send it to the server when you do your request.

Search for an RFC about HTTP to get the exact format of cookies and how to send them.