curl: Allow a cookie or cookies to be sent with http/https requests.
In order to access VMware ESX efficiently, we need to send a session
cookie. This patch is very simple and just allows you to send that
session cookie. It punts on the question of how you get the session
cookie in the first place, but in practice you can just run a `curl'
command against the server and extract the cookie that way.
To use it, add file.cookie to the curl URL. For example:
$ qemu-img info 'json: {
"file.driver":"https",
"file.url":"https://vcenter/folder/Windows%202003/Windows%202003-flat.vmdk?dcPath=Datacenter&dsName=datastore1",
"file.sslverify":"off",
"file.cookie":"vmware_soap_session=\"52a01262-bf93-ccce-d379-8dabb3e55560\""}'
image: [...]
file format: raw
virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes)
disk size: unavailable
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 52d56f4..5479cf5 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -2352,6 +2352,11 @@
Whether to verify the remote server's certificate when connecting over SSL. It
can have the value 'on' or 'off'. It defaults to 'on'.
+@item cookie
+Send this cookie (it can also be a list of cookies separated by ';') with
+each outgoing request. Only supported when using protocols such as HTTP
+which support cookies, otherwise ignored.
+
@item timeout
Set the timeout in seconds of the CURL connection. This timeout is the time
that CURL waits for a response from the remote server to get the size of the
