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author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2009-08-04 12:02:27 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2009-08-04 12:02:27 +0000 |
commit | 37d509f04fc9d54beb3185b866b8fe40a6af6cfb (patch) | |
tree | cad9fdcc4a0a1e248f4ffaa9ac4fb9d03da8fa33 /docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 | |
parent | 35eb9fc6ad300fa67845d48bdd0c71e9b350f760 (diff) |
RFC1867 was updated by RFC2388
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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. |