new binary post details

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 96cb7025f..dc781f6e1 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" nroff -man curl.1
 .\" Written by Daniel Stenberg
 .\"
-.TH curl 1 "1 August 2000" "Curl 7.0" "Curl Manual"
+.TH curl 1 "24 August 2000" "Curl 7.2" "Curl Manual"
 .SH NAME
 curl \- get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP or
 HTTPS syntax.
@@ -88,16 +88,26 @@ If used with uploads, the ftp server command SIZE will not be used by
 curl. Upload resume is for FTP only.
 HTTP resume is only possible with HTTP/1.1 or later servers.
 .IP "-d/--data <data>"
-(HTTP)
-Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server. Note
-that the data is sent exactly as specified with no extra processing.
-The data is expected to be "url-encoded". This will cause curl to
-pass the data to the server using the content-type
+(HTTP) Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server. Note
+that the data is sent exactly as specified with no extra processing (with all
+newlines cut off).  The data is expected to be "url-encoded". This will cause
+curl to pass the data to the server using the content-type
 application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to -F.
 
 If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name to
 read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from stdin.
 The contents of the file must already be url-encoded.
+
+To post data purely binary, you should instead use the --data-binary option.
+
+-d/--data is the same as --data-ascii.
+.IP "--data-ascii <data>"
+(HTTP) This is an alias for the -d/--data option.
+.IP "--data-binary <data>"
+(HTTP) This posts data in a similar manner as --data-ascii does, although when
+using this option the entire context of the posted data is kept as-is. If you
+want to post a binary file without the strip-newlines feature of the
+--data-ascii option, this is for you.
 .IP "-D/--dump-header <file>"
 (HTTP/FTP)
 Write the HTTP headers to this file. Write the FTP file info to this
diff --git a/docs/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 3ee43bf50..e1ab4e63e 100644
--- a/docs/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" nroff -man [file]
 .\" Written by daniel@haxx.se
 .\"
-.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "16 June 2000" "Curl 7.0" "libcurl Manual"
+.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "24 August 2000" "Curl 7.2" "libcurl Manual"
 .SH NAME
 curl_easy_setopt - Set curl easy-session options
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ options are set with the
 followed by a parameter. That parameter can be a long, a function pointer or
 an object pointer, all depending on what the option in question expects. Read
 this manual carefully as bad input values may cause libcurl to behave badly!
+You can only set one option in each function call. A typical application uses
+many calls in the setup phase.
 
 The
 .I "handle"
@@ -117,7 +119,7 @@ CURLOPT_INFILE and CURLOPT_INFILESIZE are also interesting for uploads.
 A non-zero parameter tells the library to do a regular HTTP post. This is a
 normal application/x-www-form-urlencoded kind, which is the most commonly used
 one by HTML forms. See the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option for how to specify the
-data to post.
+data to post and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE in how to set the data size.
 .TP
 .B CURLOPT_FTPLISTONLY
 A non-zero parameter tells the library to just list the names of an ftp
@@ -188,6 +190,12 @@ few minutes risk aborting perfectly normal operations.
 Pass a char * as parameter, which should be the full data to post in a HTTP
 post operation. See also the CURLOPT_POST.
 .TP
+.B CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE
+If you want to post data to the server without letting libcurl do a strlen()
+to measure the data size, this option must be used. Also, when this option is
+used, you can post fully binary data which otherwise is likely to fail. If
+this size is set to zero, the library will use strlen() to get the data size.
+.TP
 .B CURLOPT_REFERER
 Pass a pointer to a zero terminated string as parameter. It will be used to
 set the referer: header in the http request sent to the remote server. This