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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2020-06-25 09:54:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2020-06-26 15:12:21 +0200 |
| commit | 43f7ffb6c4c1d63815ed2fcc5799bed9f7d96033 (patch) | |
| tree | 4841e34b23add79d832623cd43b4ca6e23e71c7c /docs | |
| parent | 1529838a14e72fc7b1f2bcb561ea1b1a785975e4 (diff) | |
| download | curl-43f7ffb6c4c1d63815ed2fcc5799bed9f7d96033.tar.gz | |
CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.3: provide the upload data size up front
Assisted-by: Jay Satiro
Closes #5607
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.3 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.3 index d70a31450..73daeff18 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.3 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ .\" * .\" ************************************************************************** .\" -.TH CURLOPT_READFUNCTION 3 "16 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" +.TH CURLOPT_READFUNCTION 3 "25 Jun 2020" "libcurl 7.71.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" .SH NAME CURLOPT_READFUNCTION \- read callback for data uploads .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ server end and the transfer will end there. If you set this callback pointer to NULL, or don't set it at all, the default internal read function will be used. It is doing an fread() on the FILE * userdata set with \fICURLOPT_READDATA(3)\fP. + +You can set the total size of the data you are sending by using +\fICURLOPT_INFILESIZE_LARGE(3)\fP or \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE(3)\fP, +depending on the type of transfer. For some transfer types it may be required +and it allows for better error checking. .SH DEFAULT The default internal read callback is fread(). .SH PROTOCOLS |