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getLastResponse would return null. If you don’t needed the additional availability of
the response, turning this off can lessen resource usage.
Cookies
Zend_Http_Client will accept manually specified cookie name-value pairs via its
setCookie method, but by default will not automatically retain response cookies and
resend them in subsequent requests. To have it do so , simply call setCookieJar with
no parameters. This will cause an instance of the default cookie handling class,
Zend_Http_CookieJar, to be implicitly instantiated.
If you need access to cookie data for something other than propagating it to subsequent
requests, there are a few ways to do so . Cookies can be accessed individually
via the cookie jar’s getCookie method, the required parameters for which are a URI
and a cookie name.
N ote that the URI includes a scheme (http://), a domain (localhost.example), and
a path (/). A single cookie jar instance can store cookie data for multiple domains
and multiple paths on the same domain. In cases where the latter capability is not
used, the path / can be specified so that all cookies set on the specified domain
are available to all paths under that domain. The getMatchingCookies method of
Zend_Http_CookieJar allo ws cookies to be accessed collectively based on these criteria
and returns an array of Zend_Http_Cookie objects by default. See belo w for examples.