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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 9 |
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 22563a1ff..b9aa05682 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -719,6 +719,15 @@ libcurl what the expected size of the infile is. .B CURLOPT_UPLOAD A non-zero parameter tells the library to prepare for an upload. The CURLOPT_READDATA and CURLOPT_INFILESIZE are also interesting for uploads. +.TP +.B CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE +Pass a long as parameter. This allows you to specify the maximum size (in +bytes) of a file to download. If the file requested is larger than this value, +the transfer will not start and CURLE_FILESIZE_EXCEEDED will be returned. + +NOTE: The file size is not always known prior to download, and for such files +this option has no effect even if the file transfer ends up being larger than +this given limit. This concerns both FTP and HTTP transfers. .PP .SH CONNECTION OPTIONS .TP 0.4i |