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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2014-05-16 08:51:38 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2014-05-16 08:52:06 +0200
commit077366d0c6dff5419c13266253851ce6371ad4fd (patch)
treedf160c89aeaf2ae193dea37468e54e3fd4e5d008 /docs/libcurl
parent68f0166a92cff3660993645e9ad278b26d295832 (diff)
curl_easy_setopt.3: prefer XFERINFOFUNCTION to PROGRESSFUNCTION
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.32
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index bd66e0fa3..c044163d8 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -347,6 +347,8 @@ Pass a pointer to a function that matches the following prototype:
\fBint function(void *clientp, double dltotal, double dlnow, double ultotal,
double ulnow);\fP
+We encourage users to use \fICURLOPT_XFERINFOFUNCTION\fP instead, if you can.
+
This function gets called by libcurl instead of its internal equivalent with a
frequent interval. While data is being transferred it will be called very
frequently, and during slow periods like when nothing is being transferred it