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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION.3')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION.3 index 6633dbad1..0ecbfb3db 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION.3 @@ -41,12 +41,15 @@ data. The header callback will be called once for each header and only complete header lines are passed on to the callback. Parsing headers is very easy using this. The size of the data pointed to by \fIbuffer\fP is \fIsize\fP multiplied with \fInmemb\fP. Do not assume that the header line is zero -terminated! The pointer named \fIuserdata\fP is the one you set with the -\fICURLOPT_HEADERDATA(3)\fP option. This callback function must return the -number of bytes actually taken care of. If that amount differs from the amount -passed in to your function, it'll signal an error to the library. This will -cause the transfer to get aborted and the libcurl function in progress will -return \fICURLE_WRITE_ERROR\fP. +terminated! + +The pointer named \fIuserdata\fP is the one you set with the +\fICURLOPT_HEADERDATA(3)\fP option. + +This callback function must return the number of bytes actually taken care of. +If that amount differs from the amount passed in to your function, it'll signal +an error to the library. This will cause the transfer to get aborted and the +libcurl function in progress will return \fICURLE_WRITE_ERROR\fP. A complete HTTP header that is passed to this function can be up to \fICURL_MAX_HTTP_HEADER\fP (100K) bytes. |