session.http: add --http-cookies-file#6796
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This adds the `--http-cookies-file` CLI argument and respective `http-cookies-files` Streamlink session option for parsing Netscape HTTP Cookie File data from the specified paths, so users can define HTTP cookie data with additional cookie attributes, which is not possible via the existing --http-cookie implementation.
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Resolves #3370
This implements
--http-cookies-file, which can be set multiple times.The supported format is the Netscape HTTP Cookie File format which is also used by curl for example. This is implemented via the stdlib's
http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.cookiejar.html#http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar
I intentionally avoided cookiejar in the CLI argument name, to avoid confusion with curl's
--cookie-jaroption where data is written to after running curl. Curl treats--cookiespecial when no=is found and then interprets the value as a file path. We instead use a separate parameter for this.