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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2009-02-23 18:45:00 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2009-02-23 18:45:00 +0000
commit6c9f37d263593bd72759cc2c0d275a3a9cd47b19 (patch)
tree895bd918617eb82374d92943763c884e68b914b0 /docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3
parent735955282bca7b650b97329bbadfafaf282f54d3 (diff)
- After a bug reported by James Cheng I've made curl_easy_getinfo() for
CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD and CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD return -1 if the sizes aren't know. Previously these returned 0, make it impossible to detect the difference between actually zero and unknown.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.36
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3
index 6c999cb7d..63aea1b84 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3
@@ -134,9 +134,11 @@ on the list pointer once you're done with it, as libcurl will not free the
data for you. (Added in 7.12.3)
.IP CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD
Pass a pointer to a double to receive the content-length of the download. This
-is the value read from the Content-Length: field.
+is the value read from the Content-Length: field. Since 7.19.4, this returns -1
+if the size isn't known.
.IP CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD
-Pass a pointer to a double to receive the specified size of the upload.
+Pass a pointer to a double to receive the specified size of the upload. Since
+7.19.4, this returns -1 if the size isn't known.
.IP CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE
Pass a pointer to a 'char *' to receive the content-type of the downloaded
object. This is the value read from the Content-Type: field. If you get NULL,