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| author | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2021-07-21 01:00:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2021-07-21 01:03:06 -0400 |
| commit | ecf0225461590f3204f237f57919131efcebb3b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 80142cdfb5ba33df5d577b06950f3ba025df1a2e /docs/cmdline-opts | |
| parent | 9bd629bfadeb3988df473ae4747e04f1ee3df610 (diff) | |
| download | curl-ecf0225461590f3204f237f57919131efcebb3b7.tar.gz | |
docs: mention max-filesize options also apply to MQTT transfers
Also make it clearer that the caveat 'if the file size is unknown it
the option will have no effect' may apply to protocols other than FTP
and HTTP.
Reported-by: Josh Soref
Fixes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7453
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/cmdline-opts')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/cmdline-opts/max-filesize.d | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/max-filesize.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/max-filesize.d index e1e2849fc..2f82998d7 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/max-filesize.d +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/max-filesize.d @@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ A size modifier may be used. For example, Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the number as kilobytes, 'm' or 'M' makes it megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G. (Added in 7.58.0) -**NOTE**: The file size is not always known prior to download, and for such -files this option has no effect even if the file transfer ends up being larger -than this given limit. This concerns both FTP and HTTP transfers. +**NOTE**: For protocols where the size is not known in advance (including FTP +and HTTP) this option has no effect even if the file transfer ends up being +larger than the given limit. |