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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2009-08-04 12:02:27 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2009-08-04 12:02:27 +0000
commit37d509f04fc9d54beb3185b866b8fe40a6af6cfb (patch)
treecad9fdcc4a0a1e248f4ffaa9ac4fb9d03da8fa33
parent35eb9fc6ad300fa67845d48bdd0c71e9b350f760 (diff)
RFC1867 was updated by RFC2388
-rw-r--r--docs/curl.12
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.32
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.32
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.315
4 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index af68db87f..ddf9fe654 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ waits for a reply from the server.
.IP "-F/--form <name=content>"
(HTTP) This lets curl emulate a filled-in form in which a user has pressed the
submit button. This causes curl to POST data using the Content-Type
-multipart/form-data according to RFC1867. This enables uploading of binary
+multipart/form-data according to RFC2388. This enables uploading of binary
files etc. To force the 'content' part to be a file, prefix the file name
with an @ sign. To just get the content part from a file, prefix the file name
with the symbol <. The difference between @ and < is then that @ makes a file
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index b30e04f06..40447caa9 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ data using the read callback!
Using POST with HTTP 1.1 implies the use of a "Expect: 100-continue" header.
You can disable this header with \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER\fP as usual.
-To make multipart/formdata posts (aka rfc1867-posts), check out the
+To make multipart/formdata posts (aka RFC2388-posts), check out the
\fICURLOPT_HTTPPOST\fP option.
.IP CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE
If you want to post data to the server without letting libcurl do a strlen()
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3
index 190a6b20d..cf692ea52 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ curl_formadd - add a section to a multipart/formdata HTTP POST
.ad
.SH DESCRIPTION
curl_formadd() is used to append sections when building a multipart/formdata
-HTTP POST (sometimes referred to as rfc1867-style posts). Append one section at
+HTTP POST (sometimes referred to as RFC2388-style posts). Append one section at
a time until you've added all the sections you want included and then you pass
the \fIfirstitem\fP pointer as parameter to \fBCURLOPT_HTTPPOST\fP.
\fIlastitem\fP is set after each call and on repeated invokes it should be
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3
index 9b2cb043c..497551633 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3
@@ -502,13 +502,14 @@ then passing that list to libcurl.
While the simple examples above cover the majority of all cases where HTTP
POST operations are required, they don't do multi-part formposts. Multi-part
formposts were introduced as a better way to post (possibly large) binary data
-and were first documented in the RFC1867. They're called multi-part because
-they're built by a chain of parts, each being a single unit. Each part has its
-own name and contents. You can in fact create and post a multi-part formpost
-with the regular libcurl POST support described above, but that would require
-that you build a formpost yourself and provide to libcurl. To make that
-easier, libcurl provides \fIcurl_formadd(3)\fP. Using this function, you add
-parts to the form. When you're done adding parts, you post the whole form.
+and were first documented in the RFC1867 (updated in RFC2388). They're called
+multi-part because they're built by a chain of parts, each part being a single
+unit of data. Each part has its own name and contents. You can in fact create
+and post a multi-part formpost with the regular libcurl POST support described
+above, but that would require that you build a formpost yourself and provide
+to libcurl. To make that easier, libcurl provides \fIcurl_formadd(3)\fP. Using
+this function, you add parts to the form. When you're done adding parts, you
+post the whole form.
The following example sets two simple text parts with plain textual contents,
and then a file with binary contents and uploads the whole thing.