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authorBalazs Kovacsics <balazs.kovacsics@ericsson.com>2019-07-22 14:37:37 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2019-07-29 13:18:53 +0200
commit802aa5ae27ce755b94477976397502dc056227c4 (patch)
treea9c9b24c4dbe2ae89d9ce609ce1a2602c47a336d /docs/libcurl/opts
parent9736ac03ab3c9b352437dc1cb6cb4568bbf1a711 (diff)
HTTP: use chunked Transfer-Encoding for HTTP_POST if size unknown
If using the read callback for HTTP_POST, and POSTFIELDSIZE is not set, automatically add a Transfer-Encoding: chunked header, same as it is already done for HTTP_PUT, HTTP_POST_FORM and HTTP_POST_MIME. Update test 1514 according to the new behaviour. Closes #4138
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.35
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.3
index 66e5c6ac7..2f3d43d67 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2019, 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
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ If you use POST to an HTTP 1.1 server, you can send data without knowing the
size before starting the POST if you use chunked encoding. You enable this by
adding a header like "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" with
\fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP. With HTTP 1.0 or without chunked transfer, you
-must specify the size in the request.
+must specify the size in the request. (Since 7.66.0, libcurl will
+automatically use chunked encoding for POSTs if the size is unknown.)
When setting \fICURLOPT_POST(3)\fP to 1, libcurl will automatically set
\fICURLOPT_NOBODY(3)\fP and \fICURLOPT_HTTPGET(3)\fP to 0.