moparisthebest/curl
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/moparisthebest/curl synced 2024-12-21 23:58:49 -05:00
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity

"Added in 7.14.1" notes and some minor edits

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Daniel Stenberg 2005-08-25 07:06:50 +00:00
parent 573350637e
commit 54887af471
1 changed files with 14 additions and 12 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

26
docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
View File

@ -284,15 +284,16 @@ be prefixed with [protocol]:// since any such prefix will be ignored. The
proxy's port number may optionally be specified with the separate option
\fICURLOPT_PROXYPORT\fP.
\fBNOTE:\fP when you tell the library to use an HTTP proxy, libcurl will
transparently convert operations to HTTP even if you specify an FTP URL
etc. This may have an impact on what other features of the library you can
use, such as \fICURLOPT_QUOTE\fP and similar FTP specifics that don't work
unless you tunnel through the HTTP proxy. Such tunneling is activated with
When you tell the library to use an HTTP proxy, libcurl will transparently
convert operations to HTTP even if you specify an FTP URL etc. This may have
an impact on what other features of the library you can use, such as
\fICURLOPT_QUOTE\fP and similar FTP specifics that don't work unless you
tunnel through the HTTP proxy. Such tunneling is activated with
\fICURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL\fP.
\fBNOTE2:\fP libcurl respects the environment variables \fBhttp_proxy\fP,
\fBftp_proxy\fP, \fBall_proxy\fP etc, if any of those is set.
libcurl respects the environment variables \fBhttp_proxy\fP, \fBftp_proxy\fP,
\fBall_proxy\fP etc, if any of those is set. The \fICURLOPT_PROXY\fP option
does however override any possibly set environment variables.
Starting with 7.14.1, the proxy host string can be specified the exact same
way as the proxy environment variables, include protocol prefix (http://) and
@ -667,7 +668,7 @@ existing for this "session" only.
Pass a char * to a cookie string. Cookie can be either in Netscape / Mozilla
format or just regular HTTP-style header (Set-Cookie: ...) format. If cURL
cookie engine was not enabled it will enable its cookie engine. Passing a
magic string \&"ALL" will erase all cookies known by cURL.
magic string \&"ALL" will erase all cookies known by cURL. (Added in 7.14.1)
.IP CURLOPT_HTTPGET
Pass a long. If the long is non-zero, this forces the HTTP request to get back
to GET. usable if a POST, HEAD, PUT or a custom request have been used
@ -688,10 +689,11 @@ Enforce HTTP 1.0 requests.
.IP CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1
Enforce HTTP 1.1 requests.
.IP CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH
Ignore the Content-Length header. This is useful for Apache 1.x which will
report incorrect content length for files over 2 gigabytes. If this option
is used, curl will not be able to accurately report progress, and will
simply stop the download when the server ends the connection.
Ignore the Content-Length header. This is useful for Apache 1.x (and similar
servers) which will report incorrect content length for files over 2
gigabytes. If this option is used, curl will not be able to accurately report
progress, and will simply stop the download when the server ends the
connection. (added in 7.14.1)
.RE
.SH FTP OPTIONS
.IP CURLOPT_FTPPORT