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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-08-22 11:23:07 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-08-22 11:23:07 +0000
commitfc2d24105c55a4188cc0083e6197dc1ee1c0de1f (patch)
treeaa9a1b3b12e21960a40eb69cc17a1e7d2680d2d0
parent6704d44dd4c0b4c64a0bb933fd4e922a611ac7d5 (diff)
CURLOPT_POST isn't needed these days
-rw-r--r--docs/curl_easy_setopt.39
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 1a21a3cc4..0d382f259 100644
--- a/docs/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
.\" nroff -man [file]
.\" $Id$
.\"
-.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "20 August 2001" "libcurl 7.8.1" "libcurl Manual"
+.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "22 August 2001" "libcurl 7.8.1" "libcurl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl_easy_setopt - Set curl easy-session options
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -140,7 +140,9 @@ CURLOPT_INFILE and CURLOPT_INFILESIZE are also interesting for uploads.
A non-zero parameter tells the library to do a regular HTTP post. This is a
normal application/x-www-form-urlencoded kind, which is the most commonly used
one by HTML forms. See the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option for how to specify the
-data to post and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE in how to set the data size.
+data to post and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE in how to set the data size. Starting
+with libcurl 7.8, this option is obsolete. Using the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option
+will imply this option.
.TP
.B CURLOPT_FTPLISTONLY
A non-zero parameter tells the library to just list the names of an ftp
@@ -211,7 +213,8 @@ that this does not work in multi-threaded programs!
.TP
.B CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
Pass a char * as parameter, which should be the full data to post in a HTTP
-post operation. See also the CURLOPT_POST.
+post operation. See also the CURLOPT_POST. Since 7.8, using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
+implies CURLOPT_POST.
.TP
.B CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE
If you want to post data to the server without letting libcurl do a strlen()