examples/README: cut out the incomplete list

... and add a generic explanation for them instead. Each example file
should contain its own description these days.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 48 deletions

diff --git a/docs/examples/README b/docs/examples/README
index 1ca62a154..078cabed0 100644
--- a/docs/examples/README
+++ b/docs/examples/README
@@ -32,51 +32,7 @@ actually torture our web site with your tests!  Thanks.
 
 EXAMPLES
 
-anyauthput.c   - HTTP PUT using "any" authentication method
-cacertinmem.c  - Use a built-in PEM certificate to retrieve a https page
-cookie_interface.c - shows usage of simple cookie interface
-curlgtk.c      - download using a GTK progress bar
-curlx.c        - getting file info from the remote cert data
-debug.c        - showing how to use the debug callback
-fileupload.c   - uploading to a file:// URL
-fopen.c        - fopen() layer that supports opening URLs and files
-ftpget.c       - simple getting a file from FTP
-ftpgetresp.c   - get the response strings from the FTP server
-ftpupload.c    - upload a file to an FTP server
-ftpuploadresume.c - resume an upload to an FTP server
-getinfo.c      - get the Content-Type from the recent transfer
-getinmemory.c  - download a file to memory only
-ghiper.c       - curl_multi_socket() using code with glib-2
-hiperfifo.c    - downloads all URLs written to the fifo, using
-                 curl_multi_socket() and libevent
-htmltidy.c     - download a document and use libtidy to parse the HTML
-htmltitle.cc   - download a HTML file and extract the <title> tag from a HTML
-                 page using libxml
-http-post.c    - HTTP POST
-httpput.c      - HTTP PUT a local file
-https.c        - simple HTTPS transfer
-imap.c         - simple IMAP transfer
-multi-app.c    - a multi-interface app
-multi-debugcallback.c - a multi-interface app using the debug callback
-multi-double.c - a multi-interface app doing two simultaneous transfers
-multi-post.c   - a multi-interface app doing a multipart formpost
-multi-single.c - a multi-interface app getting a single file
-multi-uv.c     - a multi-interface app using libuv
-multithread.c  - an example using multi-treading transferring multiple files
-opensslthreadlock.c - show how to do locking when using OpenSSL multi-threaded
-persistant.c   - request two URLs with a persistent connection
-pop3s.c        - POP3S transfer
-pop3slist.c    - POP3S LIST
-post-callback.c - send a HTTP POST using a callback
-postit2.c      - send a HTTP multipart formpost
-sampleconv.c   - showing how a program on a non-ASCII platform would invoke
-                 callbacks to do its own codeset conversions instead of using
-                 the built-in iconv functions in libcurl
-sepheaders.c   - download headers to a separate file
-simple.c       - the most simple download a URL source
-simplepost.c   - HTTP POST
-simplessl.c    - HTTPS example with certificates many options set
-synctime.c     - Sync local time by extracting date from remote HTTP servers
-url2file.c     - download a document and store it in a file
-xmlstream.c    - Stream-parse a document using the streaming Expat parser
-10-at-a-time.c - Download many files simultaneously, 10 at a time.
+Each example source code file is designed to be and work stand-alone and
+rather self-explanatory. The examples may at times lack the level of error
+checks you need in a real world, but that is then only for the sake of
+readability: to make the code smaller and easier to follow.