Difference in cookie handling between wget and curl. wtf?

Question

linux

These commands produce different results:
wget --load-cookies=cookies.txt www.example.com
curl -b cookies.txt www.example.com
Wget is fine. Curl throws a 403 error. The problem is that I need to POST, but wget doesn't support multipart/form-data. Therefore, you need to use curl.
How to get around the problem and why is this happening?

Answer 1

Maybe UserAgent?
Also tried saving cookies from locally installed phpMyAdmin. The line in the file saved by wget looks like this:

127.0.0.1 FALSE /pma/ FALSE 1294809105 pma_theme original

And curl is like this:

#HttpOnly_127.0.0.1 FALSE /pma/ FALSE 1294809043 pma_theme original

In general, this is a Netscape HTTP Cookie File, but I'm confused by the comment at the beginning of the line that curl puts in.

Answer 2

Change user agent, curl -A "user agent string"