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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2021-01-14 14:22:25 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2021-01-14 14:22:25 +0100
commit2ab60c008c636ab34930398df345d6fd9c3fa343 (patch)
tree6c003751c0ec6758ec95de1cdc087f8f7a512417
parent8f32ead8bf38ba7cb86c98f16db7c0e28a5c07c8 (diff)
downloadcurl-bagder/pretransfer-docs.tar.gz
CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME.3: clarifybagder/pretransfer-docs
... the timer *does* include the instructions for getting the remote file. Ref: #6452
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME.311
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME.3
index 113b0331e..68f68f88a 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2019, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2021, 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
@@ -29,10 +29,11 @@ CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME \- get the time until the file transfer start
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME, double *timep);
.SH DESCRIPTION
Pass a pointer to a double to receive the time, in seconds, it took from the
-start until the file transfer is just about to begin. This includes all
-pre-transfer commands and negotiations that are specific to the particular
-protocol(s) involved. It does \fInot\fP involve the sending of the protocol-
-specific request that triggers a transfer.
+start until the file transfer is just about to begin.
+
+This time-stamp includes all pre-transfer commands and negotiations that are
+specific to the particular protocol(s) involved. It includes the sending of
+the protocol- specific protocol instructions that triggers a transfer.
When a redirect is followed, the time from each request is added together.