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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.3 index 79139adf1..edd9bdbf6 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.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 @@ -34,9 +34,10 @@ CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, read_callback); Pass a pointer to your callback function, as the prototype shows above. This callback function gets called by libcurl as soon as it needs to read data -in order to send it to the peer. The data area pointed at by the pointer -\fIbuffer\fP should be filled up with at most \fIsize\fP multiplied with -\fInmemb\fP number of bytes by your function. +in order to send it to the peer - like if you ask it to upload or post data to +the server. The data area pointed at by the pointer \fIbuffer\fP should be +filled up with at most \fIsize\fP multiplied with \fInmemb\fP number of bytes +by your function. Your function must then return the actual number of bytes that it stored in that memory area. Returning 0 will signal end-of-file to the library and cause @@ -75,4 +76,4 @@ was added in 7.12.1. This will return CURLE_OK. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR CURLOPT_READDATA "(3), " CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION "(3), " -.BR CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION "(3), " +.BR CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION "(3), " CURLOPT_UPLOAD "(3), " CURLOPT_POST "(3), " |