http: add --strip-path-slash and CURLOPT_STRIP_PATH_SLASH

... to enable sending "OPTIONS *" which wasn't possible previously.

This option currently only works for HTTP.

Added test cases 1298 + 1299 to verify

Fixes #1280
Closes #1462

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/url.c b/lib/url.c
index 8cd83d3a7..23b243f83 100644
--- a/lib/url.c
+++ b/lib/url.c
@@ -829,6 +829,10 @@ CURLcode Curl_setopt(struct Curl_easy *data, CURLoption option,
          then this can be changed to HEAD later on) */
       data->set.httpreq = HTTPREQ_GET;
     break;
+  case CURLOPT_STRIP_PATH_SLASH:
+    arg = va_arg(param, long);
+    data->set.strip_path_slash = (bool)arg;
+    break;
   case CURLOPT_FILETIME:
     /*
      * Try to get the file time of the remote document. The time will