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diff --git a/docs/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 1a21a3cc4..0d382f259 100644 --- a/docs/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ .\" nroff -man [file] .\" $Id$ .\" -.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "20 August 2001" "libcurl 7.8.1" "libcurl Manual" +.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "22 August 2001" "libcurl 7.8.1" "libcurl Manual" .SH NAME curl_easy_setopt - Set curl easy-session options .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -140,7 +140,9 @@ 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 and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE in how to set the data size. +data to post and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE in how to set the data size. Starting +with libcurl 7.8, this option is obsolete. Using the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option +will imply this option. .TP .B CURLOPT_FTPLISTONLY A non-zero parameter tells the library to just list the names of an ftp @@ -211,7 +213,8 @@ that this does not work in multi-threaded programs! .TP .B CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS Pass a char * as parameter, which should be the full data to post in a HTTP -post operation. See also the CURLOPT_POST. +post operation. See also the CURLOPT_POST. Since 7.8, using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS +implies CURLOPT_POST. .TP .B CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE If you want to post data to the server without letting libcurl do a strlen() |