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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2014-08-27 23:59:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2014-08-28 00:11:09 +0200 |
| commit | 1d30f4095064fafbba2852ca98627968dc5b7f46 (patch) | |
| tree | 68416220606cb5d19f29916759c5fa19e6afade7 /docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 | |
| parent | 1cd5008bba4e511aad2cec05d8319f5f03fee590 (diff) | |
CURLOPT_NOBODY.3: clarify this option is for downloads
When enabling CURLOPT_NOBODY, libcurl effectively switches off upload
mode and will do a download (without a body). This is now better
explained in this man page.
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2014-08/0236.html
Reported-by: John Coffey
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 index 043f31e0a..0d7b7adcd 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 @@ -22,15 +22,18 @@ .\" .TH CURLOPT_NOBODY 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" .SH NAME -CURLOPT_NOBODY \- do the request without getting the body +CURLOPT_NOBODY \- do the download request without getting the body .SH SYNOPSIS #include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, long opt); .SH DESCRIPTION A long parameter set to 1 tells libcurl to not include the body-part in the -output. For HTTP(S), this makes libcurl do a HEAD request. For most other -protocols it means just not asking to transfer the body data. +output when doing what would otherwise be a download. For HTTP(S), this makes +libcurl do a HEAD request. For most other protocols it means just not asking +to transfer the body data. + +Enabling this option means asking for a download but without a body. .SH DEFAULT 0, the body is transferred .SH PROTOCOLS |