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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3 | 29 |
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3 index 8508dd411..f3cea0054 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3 @@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ parts you want to add to your post. The options listed first are for making normal parts. The options from \fICURLFORM_FILE\fP through \fICURLFORM_BUFFERLENGTH\fP are for file upload parts. - .SH OPTIONS - .IP CURLFORM_COPYNAME followed by a string which provides the \fIname\fP of this part. libcurl copies the string so your application doesn't need to keep it around after @@ -48,14 +46,12 @@ this function call. If the name isn't NUL-terminated, or if you'd like it to contain zero bytes, you must set its length with \fBCURLFORM_NAMELENGTH\fP. The copied data will be freed by \fIcurl_formfree(3)\fP. - .IP CURLFORM_PTRNAME followed by a string which provides the \fIname\fP of this part. libcurl will use the pointer and refer to the data in your application, so you must make sure it remains until curl no longer needs it. If the name isn't NUL-terminated, or if you'd like it to contain zero bytes, you must set its length with \fBCURLFORM_NAMELENGTH\fP. - .IP CURLFORM_COPYCONTENTS followed by a pointer to the contents of this part, the actual data to send away. libcurl copies the provided data, so your application doesn't @@ -63,57 +59,55 @@ need to keep it around after this function call. If the data isn't null terminated, or if you'd like it to contain zero bytes, you must set the length of the name with \fBCURLFORM_CONTENTSLENGTH\fP. The copied data will be freed by \fIcurl_formfree(3)\fP. - .IP CURLFORM_PTRCONTENTS followed by a pointer to the contents of this part, the actual data to send away. libcurl will use the pointer and refer to the data in your application, so you must make sure it remains until curl no longer needs it. If the data isn't NUL-terminated, or if you'd like it to contain zero bytes, you must set its length with \fBCURLFORM_CONTENTSLENGTH\fP. - .IP CURLFORM_CONTENTSLENGTH -followed by a long giving the length of the contents. - +followed by a long giving the length of the contents. Note that for +\fICURLFORM_STREAM\fP contents, this option is mandatory. .IP CURLFORM_FILECONTENT followed by a filename, causes that file to be read and its contents used as data in this part. This part does \fInot\fP automatically become a file upload part simply because its data was read from a file. - .IP CURLFORM_FILE followed by a filename, makes this part a file upload part. It sets the \fIfilename\fP field to the basename of the provided filename, it reads the contents of the file and passes them as data and sets the content-type if the given file match one of the internally known file extensions. For \fBCURLFORM_FILE\fP the user may send one or more files in one part by -providing multiple \fBCURLFORM_FILE\fP arguments each followed by the -filename (and each CURLFORM_FILE is allowed to have a CURLFORM_CONTENTTYPE). - +providing multiple \fBCURLFORM_FILE\fP arguments each followed by the filename +(and each \fICURLFORM_FILE\fP is allowed to have a +\fICURLFORM_CONTENTTYPE\fP). .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 internally chosen one. - .IP CURLFORM_FILENAME is used in combination with \fICURLFORM_FILE\fP. Followed by a pointer to a string, it tells libcurl to use the given string as the \fIfilename\fP in the file upload part instead of the actual file name. - .IP CURLFORM_BUFFER is used for custom file upload parts without use of \fICURLFORM_FILE\fP. It tells libcurl that the file contents are already present in a buffer. The parameter is a string which provides the \fIfilename\fP field in the content header. - .IP CURLFORM_BUFFERPTR is used in combination with \fICURLFORM_BUFFER\fP. The parameter is a pointer to the buffer to be uploaded. This buffer must not be freed until after \fIcurl_easy_cleanup(3)\fP is called. You must also use \fICURLFORM_BUFFERLENGTH\fP to set the number of bytes in the buffer. - .IP CURLFORM_BUFFERLENGTH is used in combination with \fICURLFORM_BUFFER\fP. The parameter is a long which gives the length of the buffer. - +.IP CURLFORM_STREAM +Tells libcurl to use the \fICURLOPT_READFUNCTION\fP callback to get data. The +parameter you pass to \fICURLFORM_STREAM\fP is the pointer passed on to the +read callback's fourth argument. If you want the part to look like a file +upload one, set the \fICURLFORM_FILENAME\fP parameter as well. (Option added +in libcurl 7.18.2) .IP CURLFORM_ARRAY Another possibility to send options to curl_formadd() is the \fBCURLFORM_ARRAY\fP option, that passes a struct curl_forms array pointer as @@ -121,7 +115,6 @@ its value. Each curl_forms structure element has a CURLformoption and a char pointer. The final element in the array must be a CURLFORM_END. All available options can be used in an array, except the CURLFORM_ARRAY option itself! The last argument in such an array must always be \fBCURLFORM_END\fP. - .IP CURLFORM_CONTENTHEADER specifies extra headers for the form POST section. This takes a curl_slist prepared in the usual way using \fBcurl_slist_append\fP and appends the list |