From 217b436124259d1d68ab3e204bf725948ee64cb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ahmad Nassri <ahmad@codeinchaos.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 14:11:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] manually applying PR by @daydiff due to complex merge issues,
 closes #67

---
 src/Unirest/Request.php | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Unirest/Request.php b/src/Unirest/Request.php
index e7e7661..263549e 100644
--- a/src/Unirest/Request.php
+++ b/src/Unirest/Request.php
@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@ use Unirest\Response;
 
 class Request
 {
+    private static $cookieFile = null;
+    private static $defaultHeaders = array();
     private static $handle = null;
     private static $jsonOpts = array();
-    private static $verifyPeer = true;
     private static $socketTimeout = null;
-    private static $defaultHeaders = array();
+    private static $verifyPeer = true;
 
     private static $auth = array (
         'user' => '',
@@ -102,6 +103,18 @@ class Request
         return self::defaultHeader('X-Mashape-Key', $key);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Set a coockie file path for enabling coockie handling
+     *
+     * $cookieFile must be a correct path with permission to write to them
+     *
+     * @param string $cookieFile - path to file for saving coockie
+     */
+    public static function cookieFile($cookieFile)
+    {
+        self::$cookieFile = $cookieFile;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Clear all the default headers
      */
@@ -360,6 +373,11 @@ class Request
             curl_setopt(self::$handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, self::$socketTimeout);
         }
 
+        if (self::$cookieFile) {
+            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, self::$cookieFile);
+            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, self::$cookieFile);
+        }
+
         // supporting deprecated http auth method
         if (!empty($username)) {
             curl_setopt_array(self::$handle, array(