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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.35
-rw-r--r--lib/http.c5
-rw-r--r--tests/data/test151417
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.3
index 66e5c6ac7..2f3d43d67 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2019, 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
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ If you use POST to an HTTP 1.1 server, you can send data without knowing the
size before starting the POST if you use chunked encoding. You enable this by
adding a header like "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" with
\fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP. With HTTP 1.0 or without chunked transfer, you
-must specify the size in the request.
+must specify the size in the request. (Since 7.66.0, libcurl will
+automatically use chunked encoding for POSTs if the size is unknown.)
When setting \fICURLOPT_POST(3)\fP to 1, libcurl will automatically set
\fICURLOPT_NOBODY(3)\fP and \fICURLOPT_HTTPGET(3)\fP to 0.
diff --git a/lib/http.c b/lib/http.c
index 36e94f762..065a26817 100644
--- a/lib/http.c
+++ b/lib/http.c
@@ -2247,8 +2247,9 @@ CURLcode Curl_http(struct connectdata *conn, bool *done)
else {
if((conn->handler->protocol & PROTO_FAMILY_HTTP) &&
(((httpreq == HTTPREQ_POST_MIME || httpreq == HTTPREQ_POST_FORM) &&
- http->postsize < 0) ||
- (data->set.upload && data->state.infilesize == -1))) {
+ http->postsize < 0) ||
+ ((data->set.upload || httpreq == HTTPREQ_POST) &&
+ data->state.infilesize == -1))) {
if(conn->bits.authneg)
/* don't enable chunked during auth neg */
;
diff --git a/tests/data/test1514 b/tests/data/test1514
index 38f5da61f..6c09ae3b0 100644
--- a/tests/data/test1514
+++ b/tests/data/test1514
@@ -4,13 +4,14 @@
HTTP
HTTP POST
Content-Length
+chunked Transfer-Encoding
</keywords>
</info>
# Server-side
<reply>
<data nocheck="yes">
-HTTP/1.1 411 Length Required
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:50:58 GMT
Server: test-server/fake swsclose
Connection: close
@@ -36,13 +37,27 @@ http://%HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT/1514
# Verify data after the test has been "shot"
<verify>
# Content-Length header is not present
+# Transfer-Encoding header is added automatically
<protocol>
POST /1514 HTTP/1.1
Host: %HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT
Accept: */*
+Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Expect: 100-continue
+1
+d
+1
+u
+1
+m
+1
+m
+1
+y
+0
+
</protocol>
</verify>
</testcase>