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author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2003-12-08 13:59:35 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2003-12-08 13:59:35 +0000 |
commit | 7e3cd82b5028546cff19bfc8fcb95c5001c26d33 (patch) | |
tree | da2ff3c70498a23095fb8c407a3f5e226d6ca719 | |
parent | bc372815a85bc7b5c7091aaf4d739eb73ed821b6 (diff) |
updated 5.5 to use the modern names of these defines
-rw-r--r-- | docs/FAQ | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Updated: June 17, 2003 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) +Updated: December 8, 2003 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) _ _ ____ _ ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ FAQ 5.2 How can I receive all data into a large memory chunk? 5.3 How do I fetch multiple files with libcurl? 5.4 Does libcurl do Winsock initing on win32 systems? - 5.5 Does CURLOPT_FILE and CURLOPT_INFILE work on win32 ? + 5.5 Does CURLOPT_WRITEDATA and CURLOPT_READDATA work on win32 ? 5.6 What about Keep-Alive or persistent connections? 5.7 Link errors when building libcurl on Windows! @@ -699,13 +699,15 @@ FAQ Yes, if told to in the curl_global_init() call. - 5.5 Does CURLOPT_FILE and CURLOPT_INFILE work on win32 ? + 5.5 Does CURLOPT_WRITEDATA and CURLOPT_READDATA work on win32 ? Yes, but you cannot open a FILE * and pass the pointer to a DLL and have - that DLL use the FILE *. If you set CURLOPT_FILE you must also use - CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION as well to set a function that writes the file, even - if that simply writes the data to the specified FILE*. Similarly, if you use - CURLOPT_INFILE you must also specify CURLOPT_READFUNCTION. + that DLL use the FILE * (as the DLL and the client application cannot access + each others' variable memory areas). If you set CURLOPT_WRITEDATA you must + also use CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION as well to set a function that writes the + file, even if that simply writes the data to the specified FILE *. + Similarly, if you use CURLOPT_READDATA you must also specify + CURLOPT_READFUNCTION. (Provided by Joel DeYoung and Bob Schader) |