examples: added descriptions

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/docs/examples/sendrecv.c b/docs/examples/sendrecv.c
index 88fddf59f..9bc2371ca 100644
--- a/docs/examples/sendrecv.c
+++ b/docs/examples/sendrecv.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2012, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@
  * KIND, either express or implied.
  *
  ***************************************************************************/
-/* An example of curl_easy_send() and curl_easy_recv() usage. */
+/* <DESC>
+ * An example of curl_easy_send() and curl_easy_recv() usage.
+ * </DESC>
+ */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
@@ -66,6 +69,14 @@ int main(void)
   size_t iolen;
   curl_off_t nread;
 
+  /* A general note of caution here: if you're using curl_easy_recv() or
+     curl_easy_send() to implement HTTP or _any_ other protocol libcurl
+     supports "natively", you're doing it wrong and you should stop.
+
+     This example uses HTTP only to show how to use this API, it does not
+     suggest that writing an application doing this is sensible.
+  */
+
   curl = curl_easy_init();
   if(curl) {
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");