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-rw-r--r--docs/examples/httpcustomheader.c25
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/examples/httpcustomheader.c b/docs/examples/httpcustomheader.c
index 07ff95997..8542ead53 100644
--- a/docs/examples/httpcustomheader.c
+++ b/docs/examples/httpcustomheader.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
* | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
* \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
*
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2012, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, 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
@@ -31,20 +31,25 @@ int main(void)
if(curl) {
struct curl_slist *chunk = NULL;
- chunk = curl_slist_append(chunk, "Accept: moo");
+ /* Remove a header curl would otherwise add by itself */
+ chunk = curl_slist_append(chunk, "Accept:");
+
+ /* Add a custom header */
chunk = curl_slist_append(chunk, "Another: yes");
- /* request with the built-in Accept: */
+ /* Modify a header curl otherwise adds differently */
+ chunk = curl_slist_append(chunk, "Host: example.com");
+
+ /* Add a header with "blank" contents to the right of the colon. Note that
+ we're then using a semicolon in the string we pass to curl! */
+ chunk = curl_slist_append(chunk, "X-silly-header;");
+
+ /* set our custom set of headers */
+ res = curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, chunk);
+
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "localhost");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L);
- res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
- /* Check for errors */
- if(res != CURLE_OK)
- fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
- curl_easy_strerror(res));
- /* redo request with our own custom Accept: */
- res = curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, chunk);
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
/* Check for errors */
if(res != CURLE_OK)