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author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2015-08-02 00:14:23 +0200 |
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committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2015-08-02 00:15:39 +0200 |
commit | c092b0f0f394df78a74990a7a89fc6e90a79ea99 (patch) | |
tree | cf854ba728872cbda2908c9cf2d97a0f51ac73e9 /docs/libcurl | |
parent | f75b6065db8c2c817224b6622bc24eb2d7fc2744 (diff) |
docs: formpost needs the full size at start of upload
Closes #360
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
-rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3 | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3 index 3e48149ef..cdae51be2 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, 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 @@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ given file match one of the internally known file extensions. For providing multiple \fBCURLFORM_FILE\fP arguments each followed by the filename (and each \fICURLFORM_FILE\fP is allowed to have a \fICURLFORM_CONTENTTYPE\fP). + +The given upload file has to exist in its full in the file system already when +the upload starts, as libcurl needs to read the correct file size beforehand. .IP CURLFORM_CONTENTTYPE is used in combination with \fICURLFORM_FILE\fP. Followed by a pointer to a string which provides the content-type for this part, possibly instead of an |