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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2014-06-21 19:46:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2014-06-21 19:46:45 +0200 |
| commit | ac5b6f8082b8b94c79b750ec17bd4a318fa04683 (patch) | |
| tree | 81a94b2aabe0ddae2e43ffb054320e1bb68705e2 /docs/libcurl | |
| parent | ecacdb3430916156809db537afc358f6ac05e12b (diff) | |
curl_easy_setopt.3: CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is the exception
... to the always-copy-char *-argument.
And fix some minor mistakes.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 71b2c8fd0..a51cc0a85 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -45,8 +45,10 @@ options back to internal default with \fIcurl_easy_reset(3)\fP. Strings passed to libcurl as 'char *' arguments, are copied by the library; thus the string storage associated to the pointer argument may be overwritten -after curl_easy_setopt() returns. Exceptions to this rule are described in -the option details below. +after curl_easy_setopt() returns. The only exception to this rule is really +\fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDS\fP, but the alternative that copies the string +\fICURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS\fP has some usage characteristics you need to read +up on. Before version 7.17.0, strings were not copied. Instead the user was forced keep them available until libcurl no longer needed them. @@ -272,7 +274,7 @@ Do a HTTP GET request. See \fICURLOPT_HTTPGET(3)\fP .IP CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION HTTP version to use. \fICURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION(3)\fP .IP CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH -Ignore Content-Length. See \fIURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH(3)\fP +Ignore Content-Length. See \fICURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH(3)\fP .IP CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING Disable Content decoding. See \fICURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING(3)\fP .IP CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING @@ -333,8 +335,6 @@ RTSP session-id. See \fICURLOPT_RTSP_SESSION_ID(3)\fP RTSP stream URI. See \fICURLOPT_RTSP_STREAM_URI(3)\fP .IP CURLOPT_RTSP_TRANSPORT RTSP Transport: header. See \fICURLOPT_RTSP_TRANSPORT(3)\fP -.IP CURLOPT_RTSP_HEADER -RTSP custom headers. See \fICURLOPT_RTSP_HEADER(3)\fP .IP CURLOPT_RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ Clent CSEQ number. See \fICURLOPT_RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ(3)\fP .IP CURLOPT_RTSP_SERVER_CSEQ |