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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2021-09-11 22:59:38 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2021-09-11 22:59:38 +0200
commitaf7a5cdad1c78c3e83a1c4e9b1ff11861ae4244d (patch)
treefcb75859b23ae4fe01def795f2a8e9e33163aa47
parente41e1b2a4d96cef619e68b5235844b074c2001bc (diff)
downloadcurl-bagder/writeout-clarify.tar.gz
write-out.d: clarify size_download/uploadbagder/writeout-clarify
They show the number of "body" bytes transfered. Fixes #7702
-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/write-out.d6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/write-out.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/write-out.d
index 6c74ddcdc..616805978 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/write-out.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/write-out.d
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ known as "http_code"). (Added in 7.18.2)
The URL scheme (sometimes called protocol) that was effectively used. (Added in 7.52.0)
.TP
.B size_download
-The total amount of bytes that were downloaded.
+The total amount of bytes that were downloaded. This is the size of the
+body/data that was transfered, excluding headers.
.TP
.B size_header
The total amount of bytes of the downloaded headers.
@@ -121,7 +122,8 @@ The total amount of bytes of the downloaded headers.
The total amount of bytes that were sent in the HTTP request.
.TP
.B size_upload
-The total amount of bytes that were uploaded.
+The total amount of bytes that were uploaded. This is the size of the
+body/data that was transfered, excluding headers.
.TP
.B speed_download
The average download speed that curl measured for the complete download. Bytes