From 1d30f4095064fafbba2852ca98627968dc5b7f46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 23:59:54 +0200 Subject: CURLOPT_NOBODY.3: clarify this option is for downloads When enabling CURLOPT_NOBODY, libcurl effectively switches off upload mode and will do a download (without a body). This is now better explained in this man page. Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2014-08/0236.html Reported-by: John Coffey --- docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 index 043f31e0a..0d7b7adcd 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOBODY.3 @@ -22,15 +22,18 @@ .\" .TH CURLOPT_NOBODY 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" .SH NAME -CURLOPT_NOBODY \- do the request without getting the body +CURLOPT_NOBODY \- do the download request without getting the body .SH SYNOPSIS #include CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, long opt); .SH DESCRIPTION A long parameter set to 1 tells libcurl to not include the body-part in the -output. For HTTP(S), this makes libcurl do a HEAD request. For most other -protocols it means just not asking to transfer the body data. +output when doing what would otherwise be a download. For HTTP(S), this makes +libcurl do a HEAD request. For most other protocols it means just not asking +to transfer the body data. + +Enabling this option means asking for a download but without a body. .SH DEFAULT 0, the body is transferred .SH PROTOCOLS -- cgit v1.2.3