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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/http.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/http.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/http.h b/lib/http.h index d321333fe..57f1d115e 100644 --- a/lib/http.h +++ b/lib/http.h @@ -57,13 +57,20 @@ int Curl_http_should_fail(struct connectdata *conn); public curl/curl.h header. */ #define CURLAUTH_PICKNONE (1<<30) /* don't use auth */ -/* MAX_INITIAL_POST_SIZE indicates the number of kilobytes that will be sent - in the initial part of a multi-part POST message. This is primarily for - OpenVMS where the maximum number of bytes allowed per I/O is 64K. For - other systems that do not define this, the default is (as it was - previously) 100K. */ +/* MAX_INITIAL_POST_SIZE indicates the number of bytes that will make the POST + data get included in the initial data chunk sent to the server. If the + data is larger than this, it will automatically get split up in multiple + system calls. + + This value used to be fairly big (100K), but we must take into account that + if the server rejects the POST due for authentication reasons, this data + will always be uncondtionally sent and thus it may not be larger than can + always be afforded to send twice. + + It must not be greater than 64K to work on VMS. +*/ #ifndef MAX_INITIAL_POST_SIZE -#define MAX_INITIAL_POST_SIZE (100*1024) +#define MAX_INITIAL_POST_SIZE 1024 #endif #endif |