I get a cookie error and a Retrieval failed Error 3 with every download

[Schnubbirunkel]

net/http: invalid byte ';' in Cookie.Value; dropping invalid bytes

This is what it shows me on every download.

It gives me the same error message, when I check my games list, but does it anyways.

[Twombs]

I've never seen that myself, so can only imagine there is something wrong with your cookie file(s). What did you use to create your cookie file? And are you using a second more detailed cookie file with curl.exe? And are you able to get the games list anyway and do downloads?

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[Schnubbirunkel]

I've used this browser addon: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/get-cookiestxt-locally/cclelndahbckbenkjhflpdbgdldlbecc

I'm not using a second cookie file

After changing between versions of this software and gogcli, I can get my games list, but can't download any game.

[Twombs]

Okay, I use that cookie file addon myself, and use the resulting file with curl.exe, renamed to *gogcom_cookies.txt*. You need a different cookie file for gogcli.exe, which is named *Cookie.txt* . Inside that Cookie.txt file is a required single line entry, that you can extract from the first (gogcom_cookies.txt) cookie file. That line starts with *gog-al=* To do that look for *gog-al* in the first cookie file, and grab the long gobbledegook text string that comes after that, and paste that into the second cookie file (Cookie.txt) immediately after the equals sign. i.e. *gog-al=WHATEVERBLAHBLAHETC* Do that and let me know how you get on.

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