If any of the options CURLOPT_HTTPGET, CURLOPT_POST and CURLOPT_HTTPPOST is

set to 1, CURLOPT_NOBODY will now automatically be set to 0.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 75fc28926..8f653f595 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 .\" * $Id$
 .\" **************************************************************************
 .\"
-.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "13 Jul 2005" "libcurl 7.14.1" "libcurl Manual"
+.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "28 Jul 2005" "libcurl 7.14.1" "libcurl Manual"
 .SH NAME
 curl_easy_setopt - set options for a curl easy handle
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -525,8 +525,11 @@ adding a header like "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" with
 \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER\fP. With HTTP 1.0 or without chunked transfer, you must
 specify the size in the request.
 
-NOTE: if you have issued a POST request and want to make a HEAD or GET
-instead, you must explictly pick the new request type using
+When setting \fICURLOPT_POST\fP to a non-zero value, it will automatically set
+\fICURLOPT_NOBODY\fP to 0.
+
+If you issue a POST request and then want to make a HEAD or GET using the same
+re-used handle, you must explictly set the new request type using
 \fICURLOPT_NOBODY\fP or \fICURLOPT_HTTPGET\fP or similar.
 .IP CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
 Pass a char * as parameter, which should be the full data to post in an HTTP
@@ -564,6 +567,9 @@ must remain intact until you close this curl handle again with
 
 Using POST with HTTP 1.1 implies the use of a "Expect: 100-continue" header.
 You can disable this header with \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER\fP as usual.
+
+When setting \fICURLOPT_HTTPPOST\fP, it will automatically set
+\fICURLOPT_NOBODY\fP to 0.
 .IP 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
@@ -664,6 +670,9 @@ was not enabled it will enable its cookie engine.  Passing a magic string
 Pass a long. If the long is non-zero, this forces the HTTP request to get back
 to GET. usable if a POST, HEAD, PUT or a custom request have been used
 previously using the same curl handle.
+
+When setting \fICURLOPT_HTTPGET\fP to a non-zero value, it will automatically
+set \fICURLOPT_NOBODY\fP to 0.
 .IP CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION
 Pass a long, set to one of the values described below. They force libcurl to
 use the specific HTTP versions. This is not sensible to do unless you have a