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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2011-05-03 22:47:56 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2011-05-03 22:47:56 +0200
commitade337d79e1920c7836ca34b62595fcd42bd85c0 (patch)
tree9c7cc4e03a645b1baa65942c5b54cddc6fea343d /docs/libcurl
parent365db94e0a92cacfebd20aa660138ea5b67a02d3 (diff)
curl_easy_getinfo.3: clarify some timing info
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.313
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3
index 2629755e8..eb4e900dd 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2010, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, 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
@@ -80,12 +80,13 @@ waits in line for the pipeline and more. (Added in 7.19.0)
Pass a pointer to a double to receive the time, in seconds, it took from the
start until the file transfer is just about to begin. This includes all
pre-transfer commands and negotiations that are specific to the particular
-protocol(s) involved.
+protocol(s) involved. It does \fInot\fP involve the sending of the protocol-
+specific request that triggers a transfer.
.IP CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME
Pass a pointer to a double to receive the time, in seconds, it took from the
-start until the first byte is just about to be transferred. This includes
-CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME and also the time the server needs to calculate
-the result.
+start until the first byte is received by libcurl. This includes
+CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME and also the time the server needs to calculate the
+result.
.IP CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME
Pass a pointer to a double to receive the total time, in seconds, it took for
all redirection steps include name lookup, connect, pretransfer and transfer
@@ -275,7 +276,7 @@ file transfer is just about to begin. This includes all pre-transfer commands
and negotiations that are specific to the particular protocol(s) involved.
.IP STARTTRANSFER
\fICURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME\fP. The time it took from the start until the
-first byte is just about to be transferred.
+first byte is received by libcurl.
.IP TOTAL
\fICURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME\fP. Total time of the previous request.
.IP REDIRECT