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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 15 |
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index fe54aeebd..565527f7a 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ .\" * $Id$ .\" ************************************************************************** .\" -.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "4 Sep 2005" "libcurl 7.14.2" "libcurl Manual" +.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "22 Sep 2005" "libcurl 7.14.2" "libcurl Manual" .SH NAME curl_easy_setopt - set options for a curl easy handle .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -136,13 +136,18 @@ server expected it, like when you've told you will upload N bytes and you upload less than N bytes), you may experience that the server "hangs" waiting for the rest of the data that won't come. -In libcurl 7.12.1 and later, the read callback may return -\fICURL_READFUNC_ABORT\fP to stop the current operation at once, with a -\fICURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK\fP error code from the transfer. +The read callback may return \fICURL_READFUNC_ABORT\fP to stop the current +operation immediately, resulting in a \fICURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK\fP error +code from the transfer (Added in 7.12.1) + +If you set the callback pointer to NULL, or doesn't set it at all, the default +internal read function will be used. It is simply doing an fread() on the FILE +* stream set with \fICURLOPT_READDATA\fP. .IP CURLOPT_READDATA Data pointer to pass to the file read function. If you use the \fICURLOPT_READFUNCTION\fP option, this is the pointer you'll get as input. If -you don't specify a read callback, this must be a valid FILE *. +you don't specify a read callback but instead rely on the default internal +read function, this data must be a valid readable FILE *. If you're using libcurl as a win32 DLL, you MUST use a \fICURLOPT_READFUNCTION\fP if you set this option. |