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| author | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2015-05-20 01:48:31 -0400 |
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| committer | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2015-05-20 01:48:31 -0400 |
| commit | db979fea73c8695a81b9360ef3060e2710bece28 (patch) | |
| tree | 911c2786ce751f680b7fea9476f459bb83a078ec /docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 | |
| parent | a393d64456b60abee0806f4e118239412c44fb63 (diff) | |
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3: Mention curl_easy_escape
.. also correct some variable naming in curl_easy_escape.3
Bug: https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/281
Reported-by: bsammon@users.noreply.github.com
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 index d55914308..27e4510b1 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ used by HTML forms. Change Content-Type with \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP. Using \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDS(3)\fP implies \fICURLOPT_POST(3)\fP. +You can use \fIcurl_easy_escape(3)\fP to url-encode your data, if necessary. It +returns a pointer to an encoded string that can be passed as \fIpostdata\fP. + If you want to do a zero-byte POST, you need to set \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE(3)\fP explicitly to zero, as simply setting \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDS(3)\fP to NULL or "" just effectively disables the |