Add cookie string support, aka CURLOPT_COOKIE

README.md

@@ -159,6 +159,12 @@ $response = Unirest\Request::get("http://mockbin.com/request", null, null, "user
 
 ### Cookies
 
+Set a cookie string to specify the contents of a cookie header. Multiple cookies are separated with a semicolon followed by a space (e.g., "fruit=apple; colour=red")
+
+```php
+Unirest\Request::cookie($cookie)
+```
+
 Set a cookie file path for enabling cookie reading and storing cookies across multiple sequence of requests.
 
 ```php

src/Unirest/Request.php

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use Unirest\Response;
 
 class Request
 {
+    private static $cookie = null;
     private static $cookieFile = null;
     private static $defaultHeaders = array();
     private static $handle = null;
@@ -103,6 +104,16 @@ class Request
         return self::defaultHeader('X-Mashape-Key', $key);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Set a coockie string for enabling coockie handling
+     *
+     * @param string $cookie
+     */
+    public static function cookie($cookie)
+    {
+        self::$cookie = $cookie;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Set a coockie file path for enabling coockie handling
      *
@@ -373,6 +384,10 @@ class Request
             curl_setopt(self::$handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, self::$socketTimeout);
         }
 
+        if (self::$cookie) {
+            curl_setopt(self::$handle, CURLOPT_COOKIE, self::$cookie);
+        }
+
         if (self::$cookieFile) {
             curl_setopt(self::$handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, self::$cookieFile);
             curl_setopt(self::$handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, self::$cookieFile);