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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 index 043f31e0a..0d7b7adcd 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 @@ -22,15 +22,18 @@ .\" .TH CURLOPT_NOBODY 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" .SH NAME -CURLOPT_NOBODY \- do the request without getting the body +CURLOPT_NOBODY \- do the download request without getting the body .SH SYNOPSIS #include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, long opt); .SH DESCRIPTION A long parameter set to 1 tells libcurl to not include the body-part in the -output. For HTTP(S), this makes libcurl do a HEAD request. For most other -protocols it means just not asking to transfer the body data. +output when doing what would otherwise be a download. For HTTP(S), this makes +libcurl do a HEAD request. For most other protocols it means just not asking +to transfer the body data. + +Enabling this option means asking for a download but without a body. .SH DEFAULT 0, the body is transferred .SH PROTOCOLS |