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-rw-r--r--docs/curl.14
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.35
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 69ab9781d..e3303a54f 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -607,7 +607,9 @@ input:
\fBcurl\fP -F password=@/etc/passwd www.mypasswords.com
To read content from stdin instead of a file, use - as the filename. This goes
-for both @ and < constructs.
+for both @ and < constructs. Unfortunately it does not support reading the
+file from a named pipe or similar, as it needs the full size before the
+transfer starts.
You can also tell curl what Content-Type to use by using 'type=', in a manner
similar to:
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3
index 3e48149ef..cdae51be2 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, 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
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ given file match one of the internally known file extensions. For
providing multiple \fBCURLFORM_FILE\fP arguments each followed by the filename
(and each \fICURLFORM_FILE\fP is allowed to have a
\fICURLFORM_CONTENTTYPE\fP).
+
+The given upload file has to exist in its full in the file system already when
+the upload starts, as libcurl needs to read the correct file size beforehand.
.IP CURLFORM_CONTENTTYPE
is used in combination with \fICURLFORM_FILE\fP. Followed by a pointer to a
string which provides the content-type for this part, possibly instead of an