From e9eb52305fd57bc1819691417e660f97ec5c1824 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:36:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] two more actual FAQs --- docs/FAQ | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/FAQ b/docs/FAQ index 5aab4f036..535891451 100644 --- a/docs/FAQ +++ b/docs/FAQ @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Updated: December 21, 2004 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) +Updated: April 5, 2005 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) _ _ ____ _ ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ FAQ 3.15 Can I do recursive fetches with curl? 3.16 What certificates do I need when I use SSL? 3.17 How do I list the root dir of an FTP server? + 3.18 Can I use curl to send a POST/PUT and not wait for a response? 4. Running Problems 4.1 Problems connecting to SSL servers. @@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ FAQ 5.7 Link errors when building libcurl on Windows! 5.8 libcurl.so.3: open failed: No such file or directory 5.9 How does libcurl resolve host names? + 5.10 How do I prevent libcurl from writing the response to stdout? 6. License Issues 6.1 I have a GPL program, can I use the libcurl library? @@ -533,6 +535,10 @@ FAQ curl ftp://ftp.sunet.se//tmp/ + 3.18 Can I use curl to send a POST/PUT and not wait for a response? + + No. + 4. Running Problems @@ -877,6 +883,16 @@ FAQ A - gethostbyname() on plain ipv4 windows hosts B - getaddrinfo() on ipv6-enabled windows hosts + Also note that libcurl never resolves or reverse-lookups addresses given as + pure numbers, such as 127.0.0.1 or ::1. + + 5.10 How do I prevent libcurl from writing the response to stdout? + + libcurl provides a default built-in write function that writes received data + to stdout. Set a WRITEFUNCTION to receive the data, or possibly set + WRITEDATA to a different FILE * handle. + + 6. License Issues Curl and libcurl are released under a MIT/X derivate license. The license is