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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2005-04-05 14:36:37 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2005-04-05 14:36:37 +0000
commite9eb52305fd57bc1819691417e660f97ec5c1824 (patch)
tree313ce8bb06f4d3735c0f3c8ad67de3f51783549a
parent8501ae748cad13e17c2744f621016fb4c87bb4e9 (diff)
two more actual FAQs
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Updated: December 21, 2004 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
+Updated: April 5, 2005 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
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@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ FAQ
3.15 Can I do recursive fetches with curl?
3.16 What certificates do I need when I use SSL?
3.17 How do I list the root dir of an FTP server?
+ 3.18 Can I use curl to send a POST/PUT and not wait for a response?
4. Running Problems
4.1 Problems connecting to SSL servers.
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ FAQ
5.7 Link errors when building libcurl on Windows!
5.8 libcurl.so.3: open failed: No such file or directory
5.9 How does libcurl resolve host names?
+ 5.10 How do I prevent libcurl from writing the response to stdout?
6. License Issues
6.1 I have a GPL program, can I use the libcurl library?
@@ -533,6 +535,10 @@ FAQ
curl ftp://ftp.sunet.se//tmp/
+ 3.18 Can I use curl to send a POST/PUT and not wait for a response?
+
+ No.
+
4. Running Problems
@@ -877,6 +883,16 @@ FAQ
A - gethostbyname() on plain ipv4 windows hosts
B - getaddrinfo() on ipv6-enabled windows hosts
+ Also note that libcurl never resolves or reverse-lookups addresses given as
+ pure numbers, such as 127.0.0.1 or ::1.
+
+ 5.10 How do I prevent libcurl from writing the response to stdout?
+
+ libcurl provides a default built-in write function that writes received data
+ to stdout. Set a WRITEFUNCTION to receive the data, or possibly set
+ WRITEDATA to a different FILE * handle.
+
+
6. License Issues
Curl and libcurl are released under a MIT/X derivate license. The license is