curl: Allow a cookie or cookies to be sent with http/https requests.

[mirror_qemu.git] / qemu-options.hx

diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
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--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -2351,6 +2351,16 @@ multiple of 512 bytes. It defaults to 256k.
 @item sslverify
 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
+image to be downloaded. If not set, the default timeout of 5 seconds is used.
 @end table
 
 Note that when passing options to qemu explicitly, @option{driver} is the value
@@ -2372,9 +2382,10 @@ qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=/tmp/Fedora-x86_64-20-20131211.1-sda.qcow2,copy-o
 @end example
 
 Example: boot from an image stored on a VMware vSphere server with a self-signed
-certificate using a local overlay for writes and a readahead of 64k
+certificate using a local overlay for writes, a readahead of 64k and a timeout
+of 10 seconds.
 @example
-qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o backing_file='json:@{"file.driver":"https",, "file.url":"https://user:password@@vsphere.example.com/folder/test/test-flat.vmdk?dcPath=Datacenter&dsName=datastore1",, "file.sslverify":"off",, "file.readahead":"64k"@}' /tmp/test.qcow2
+qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o backing_file='json:@{"file.driver":"https",, "file.url":"https://user:password@@vsphere.example.com/folder/test/test-flat.vmdk?dcPath=Datacenter&dsName=datastore1",, "file.sslverify":"off",, "file.readahead":"64k",, "file.timeout":10@}' /tmp/test.qcow2
 
 qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=/tmp/test.qcow2
 @end example