From 31b28a0942b01a327b8df5d6ef822d9785f7f199 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:03:45 +0200 Subject: curl_easy_setopt.3: shorten shorten descriptions, mostly refer to the separate descriptions --- docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 140 ++-------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 133 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/libcurl') diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index c044163d8..ffe2b114f 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -55,146 +55,20 @@ The \fIhandle\fP is the return code from a \fIcurl_easy_init(3)\fP or \fIcurl_easy_duphandle(3)\fP call. .SH BEHAVIOR OPTIONS .IP CURLOPT_VERBOSE -Set the parameter to 1 to get the library to display a lot of verbose -information about its operations. Very useful for libcurl and/or protocol -debugging and understanding. The verbose information will be sent to stderr, -or the stream set with \fICURLOPT_STDERR\fP. The default value for this -parameter is 0. - -You hardly ever want this set in production use, you will almost always want -this when you debug/report problems. Another neat option for debugging is the -\fICURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION\fP. +Display verbose information. See \fICURLOPT_VERBOSE(3)\fP .IP CURLOPT_HEADER -A parameter set to 1 tells the library to include the header in the body -output. This is only relevant for protocols that actually have headers -preceding the data (like HTTP). The default value for this parameter is 0. +Include the header in the body output. See \fICURLOPT_HEADER(3)\fP .IP CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS -Pass a long. If set to 1, it tells the library to shut off the progress meter -completely. It will also prevent the \fICURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION\fP from -getting called. The default value for this parameter is 1. - -Future versions of libcurl are likely to not have any built-in progress meter -at all. +Shut off the progress meter. See \fICURLOPT_NOPROGRESS(3)\fP .IP CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL -Pass a long. If it is 1, libcurl will not use any functions that -install signal handlers or any functions that cause signals to be sent to the -process. This option is mainly here to allow multi-threaded unix applications -to still set/use all timeout options etc, without risking getting signals. -The default value for this parameter is 0. -(Added in 7.10) - -If this option is set and libcurl has been built with the standard name -resolver, timeouts will not occur while the name resolve takes place. -Consider building libcurl with c-ares support to enable asynchronous DNS -lookups, which enables nice timeouts for name resolves without signals. - -Setting \fICURLOPT_NOSIGNAL\fP to 1 makes libcurl NOT ask the system to ignore -SIGPIPE signals, which otherwise are sent by the system when trying to send -data to a socket which is closed in the other end. libcurl makes an effort to -never cause such SIGPIPEs to trigger, but some operating systems have no way -to avoid them and even on those that have there are some corner cases when -they may still happen, contrary to our desire. In addition, using -\fICURLAUTH_NTLM_WB\fP authentication could cause a SIGCHLD signal to be -raised. +Do not install signal handlers. See \fICURLOPT_NOSIGNAL(3)\fP .IP CURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH -Set this option to 1 if you want to transfer multiple files according to a -file name pattern. The pattern can be specified as part of the -\fICURLOPT_URL\fP option, using an fnmatch-like pattern (Shell Pattern -Matching) in the last part of URL (file name). - -By default, libcurl uses its internal wildcard matching implementation. You -can provide your own matching function by the \fICURLOPT_FNMATCH_FUNCTION\fP -option. - -This feature is only supported by the FTP download for now. - -A brief introduction of its syntax follows: -.RS -.IP "* - ASTERISK" -\&ftp://example.com/some/path/\fB*.txt\fP (for all txt's from the root -directory) -.RE -.RS -.IP "? - QUESTION MARK" -Question mark matches any (exactly one) character. - -\&ftp://example.com/some/path/\fBphoto?.jpeg\fP -.RE -.RS -.IP "[ - BRACKET EXPRESSION" -The left bracket opens a bracket expression. The question mark and asterisk have -no special meaning in a bracket expression. Each bracket expression ends by the -right bracket and matches exactly one character. Some examples follow: - -\fB[a-zA-Z0\-9]\fP or \fB[f\-gF\-G]\fP \- character interval - -\fB[abc]\fP - character enumeration - -\fB[^abc]\fP or \fB[!abc]\fP - negation - -\fB[[:\fP\fIname\fP\fB:]]\fP class expression. Supported classes are -\fBalnum\fP,\fBlower\fP, \fBspace\fP, \fBalpha\fP, \fBdigit\fP, \fBprint\fP, -\fBupper\fP, \fBblank\fP, \fBgraph\fP, \fBxdigit\fP. - -\fB[][-!^]\fP - special case \- matches only '\-', ']', '[', '!' or '^'. These -characters have no special purpose. - -\fB[\\[\\]\\\\]\fP - escape syntax. Matches '[', ']' or '\\'. - -Using the rules above, a file name pattern can be constructed: - -\&ftp://example.com/some/path/\fB[a-z[:upper:]\\\\].jpeg\fP -.RE -.PP -(This was added in 7.21.0) +Transfer multiple files according to a file name pattern. See \fICURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH(3)\fP .SH CALLBACK OPTIONS .IP CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION -Pass a pointer to a function that matches the following prototype: -\fBsize_t function( char *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userdata);\fP -This function gets called by libcurl as soon as there is data received that -needs to be saved. The size of the data pointed to by \fIptr\fP is \fIsize\fP -multiplied with \fInmemb\fP, it will not be zero terminated. Return the number -of bytes actually taken care of. If that amount differs from the amount passed -to your function, it'll signal an error to the library. This will abort the -transfer and return \fICURLE_WRITE_ERROR\fP. - -From 7.18.0, the function can return CURL_WRITEFUNC_PAUSE which then will -cause writing to this connection to become paused. See -\fIcurl_easy_pause(3)\fP for further details. - -This function may be called with zero bytes data if the transferred file is -empty. - -Set this option to NULL to get the internal default function. The internal -default function will write the data to the FILE * given with -\fICURLOPT_WRITEDATA\fP. - -Set the \fIuserdata\fP argument with the \fICURLOPT_WRITEDATA\fP option. - -The callback function will be passed as much data as possible in all invokes, -but you cannot possibly make any assumptions. It may be one byte, it may be -thousands. The maximum amount of body data that can be passed to the write -callback is defined in the curl.h header file: CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE (the usual -default is 16K). If you however have \fICURLOPT_HEADER\fP set, which sends -header data to the write callback, you can get up to -\fICURL_MAX_HTTP_HEADER\fP bytes of header data passed into it. This usually -means 100K. +Function called as soon as there is data received. See \fICURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION(3)\fP .IP CURLOPT_WRITEDATA -Data pointer to pass to the file write function. If you use the -\fICURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION\fP option, this is the pointer you'll get as -input. If you don't use a callback, you must pass a 'FILE *' (cast -to 'void *') as libcurl will pass this to fwrite() when writing data. -By default, the value of this parameter is unspecified. - -The internal \fICURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION\fP will write the data to the FILE * -given with this option, or to stdout if this option hasn't been set. - -If you're using libcurl as a win32 DLL, you \fBMUST\fP use the -\fICURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION\fP if you set this option or you will experience -crashes. - -This option is also known with the older name \fICURLOPT_FILE\fP, the name -\fICURLOPT_WRITEDATA\fP was introduced in 7.9.7. +Data pointer to pass to the file write function. See \fCURLOPT_WRITEDATA(3)\fP .IP CURLOPT_READFUNCTION Pass a pointer to a function that matches the following prototype: \fBsize_t function( void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userdata);\fP -- cgit v1.2.3