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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2014-10-03 13:35:40 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2014-10-03 13:35:40 +0200
commitb1c4c39c5830951b805d9cb136c2e3f0237776b9 (patch)
tree234d8041b500b46cf1c2a7ae5f318a49bea36b88 /docs/libcurl
parentb85c625d831de821d0e4ead3d01be2ffe955aa28 (diff)
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER.3: libcurl doesn't copy the whole list
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER.35
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER.3
index 557f9fbf0..10fcf08f0 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER.3
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ following the request-line are headers. Adding this method line in this list
of headers will only cause your request to send an invalid header. Use
\fICURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST(3)\fP to change the method.
+When this option is passed to \fIcurl_easy_setopt(3)\fP, libcurl will not copy
+the entire list so you \fBmust\fP keep it around until you no longer use this
+\fIhandle\fP for a transfer before you call \fIcurl_slist_free_all(3)\fP on
+the list.
+
Pass a NULL to this option to reset back to no custom headers.
The most commonly replaced headers have "shortcuts" in the options