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clarify what the default read callback does and how it uses the READDATA

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Daniel Stenberg 2005-09-22 10:15:10 +00:00
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.\" * $Id$
.\" **************************************************************************
.\"
.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "4 Sep 2005" "libcurl 7.14.2" "libcurl Manual"
.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "22 Sep 2005" "libcurl 7.14.2" "libcurl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl_easy_setopt - set options for a curl easy handle
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -136,13 +136,18 @@ server expected it, like when you've told you will upload N bytes and you
upload less than N bytes), you may experience that the server "hangs" waiting
for the rest of the data that won't come.
In libcurl 7.12.1 and later, the read callback may return
\fICURL_READFUNC_ABORT\fP to stop the current operation at once, with a
\fICURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK\fP error code from the transfer.
The read callback may return \fICURL_READFUNC_ABORT\fP to stop the current
operation immediately, resulting in a \fICURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK\fP error
code from the transfer (Added in 7.12.1)
If you set the callback pointer to NULL, or doesn't set it at all, the default
internal read function will be used. It is simply doing an fread() on the FILE
* stream set with \fICURLOPT_READDATA\fP.
.IP CURLOPT_READDATA
Data pointer to pass to the file read function. If you use the
\fICURLOPT_READFUNCTION\fP option, this is the pointer you'll get as input. If
you don't specify a read callback, this must be a valid FILE *.
you don't specify a read callback but instead rely on the default internal
read function, this data must be a valid readable FILE *.
If you're using libcurl as a win32 DLL, you MUST use a
\fICURLOPT_READFUNCTION\fP if you set this option.