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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2023-01-07 16:03:40 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2023-01-08 20:54:48 +0100
commit5cb63da771abfbf4776a8207053de8bfd71b2e7a (patch)
tree7f6f393e232b5124efe7855bc89fb4a05a89dd65
parent3022eeaefe6cff27a9f065217975516d1a9a3ab8 (diff)
downloadcurl-5cb63da771abfbf4776a8207053de8bfd71b2e7a.tar.gz
curl.h: allow up to 10M buffer size
Bump the limit from 512K. There might be reasons for applications using h3 to set larger buffers and there is no strong reason for curl to have a very small maximum. Ref: https://curl.se/mail/lib-2023-01/0026.html Closes #10256
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE.34
-rw-r--r--include/curl/curl.h2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE.3
index f96ac9bec..7e6a19a07 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE.3
@@ -41,11 +41,13 @@ This is just treated as a request, not an order. You cannot be guaranteed to
actually get the given size.
This buffer size is by default \fICURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE\fP (16kB). The maximum
-buffer size allowed to be set is \fICURL_MAX_READ_SIZE\fP (512kB). The minimum
+buffer size allowed to be set is \fICURL_MAX_READ_SIZE\fP (10MB). The minimum
buffer size allowed to be set is 1024.
DO NOT set this option on a handle that is currently used for an active
transfer as that may lead to unintended consequences.
+
+The maximum size was 512kB until 7.88.0.
.SH DEFAULT
CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE (16kB)
.SH PROTOCOLS
diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index fb6d40981..c599b4d3f 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ typedef int (*curl_xferinfo_callback)(void *clientp,
#ifndef CURL_MAX_READ_SIZE
/* The maximum receive buffer size configurable via CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE. */
-#define CURL_MAX_READ_SIZE 524288
+#define CURL_MAX_READ_SIZE (10*1024*1024)
#endif
#ifndef CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE