1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/plugins/check_curl.c b/plugins/check_curl.c
index ef7d4ee4..748201e8 100644
--- a/plugins/check_curl.c
+++ b/plugins/check_curl.c
@@ -818,8 +818,11 @@ int check_http(void) {
 
         /* cookie handling */
         if (cookie_jar_file != NULL) {
-                handle_curl_option_return_code(curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, cookie_jar_file), "CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR");
+                /* enable reading cookies from a file, and if the filename is an empty string, only enable the curl cookie engine */
                 handle_curl_option_return_code(curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, cookie_jar_file), "CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE");
+                /* now enable saving cookies to a file, but only if the filename is not an empty string, since writing it would fail */
+                if (*cookie_jar_file)
+                        handle_curl_option_return_code(curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, cookie_jar_file), "CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR");
         }
 
         /* do the request */
@@ -2011,6 +2014,9 @@ void print_help(void) {
         printf("    %s\n", _("Send HAProxy proxy protocol v1 header (CURLOPT_HAPROXYPROTOCOL)."));
         printf(" %s\n", "--cookie-jar=FILE");
         printf("    %s\n", _("Store cookies in the cookie jar and send them out when requested."));
+        printf("    %s\n", _("Specify an empty string as FILE to enable curl's cookie engine without saving"));
+        printf("    %s\n", _("the cookies to disk. Only enabling the engine without saving to disk requires"));
+        printf("    %s\n", _("handling multiple requests internally to curl, so use it with --onredirect=curl"));
         printf("\n");
 
         printf(UT_WARN_CRIT);