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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2017-07-07 12:43:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2017-07-07 12:43:17 +0200 |
| commit | bbc9c6d1445e971706801f9e1077330213993e01 (patch) | |
| tree | f15f47dbf81afbc6fbcf6858893c52badde64575 | |
| parent | 06a6feba9de67733ef943ed9f64076923dc5f747 (diff) | |
| download | curl-bbc9c6d1445e971706801f9e1077330213993e01.tar.gz | |
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3: explain the 100-continue magic better
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 index 17ec2d76f..515376bab 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms @@ -52,8 +52,10 @@ the POST data from the read callback. If you want to send a zero-byte POST set \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDS(3)\fP to an empty string, or set \fICURLOPT_POST(3)\fP to 1 and \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE(3)\fP to 0. -Using POST with HTTP 1.1 implies the use of a "Expect: 100-continue" header. -You can disable this header with \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP as usual. +Using POST with HTTP 1.1 implies the use of a "Expect: 100-continue" header, +and libcurl will add that header automatically if the POST is either known to +be larger than 1024 bytes or if the expected size is unknown. You can disable +this header with \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP as usual. To make multipart/formdata posts (aka RFC2388-posts), check out the \fICURLOPT_HTTPPOST(3)\fP option combined with \fIcurl_formadd(3)\fP. |