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| author | Emil Engler <me@emilengler.com> | 2021-08-13 09:22:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2021-08-13 17:38:23 +0200 |
| commit | 116856b9d5c31791e5fd673490c76b11e9d38750 (patch) | |
| tree | cae3563a13d2132f4ff262050670fdc7540adb3e | |
| parent | 1e0b6f705e7e12165328d6ef2e3ec178a0ba47f4 (diff) | |
| download | curl-116856b9d5c31791e5fd673490c76b11e9d38750.tar.gz | |
curl_url_get.3: clarify about path and query
The current man-page lacks some details regarding the obtained path and
query.
Closes #7563
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3 | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3 index 3eb3288b3..a61157275 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3 @@ -84,7 +84,16 @@ If the host name is a numeric IPv6 address, this field might also be set. .IP CURLUPART_PORT Port cannot be URL decoded on get. .IP CURLUPART_PATH +\fIpart\fP will be '/' even if no path is supplied in the URL. .IP CURLUPART_QUERY +The initial question mark that denotes the beginning of the query part is +a delimiter only. +It is not part of the query contents. + + +A not-present query will lead \fIpart\fP to be set to NULL. +A zero-length query will lead \fIpart\fP to be set to a zero-length string. + The query part will also get pluses converted to space when asked to URL decode on get with the CURLU_URLDECODE bit. .IP CURLUPART_FRAGMENT |