curl/include
Daniel Stenberg a4773fcbbb Toby Peterson added CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH to the library, accessible
from the command line tool with --ignore-content-length. This will make it
easier to download files from Apache 1.x (and similar) servers that are
still having problems serving files larger than 2 or 4 GB. When this option
is enabled, curl will simply have to wait for the server to close the
connection to signal end of transfer. I wrote test case 269 that runs a
simple test that this works.
2005-08-24 10:57:28 +00:00
..
curl Toby Peterson added CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH to the library, accessible 2005-08-24 10:57:28 +00:00
.cvsignore cvsignore files 2002-08-08 23:07:24 +00:00
Makefile.am added to enable include file install 2000-07-31 22:40:52 +00:00
README spellfix 2003-06-06 06:44:05 +00:00

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Include files for libcurl, external users.

They're all placed in the curl subdirectory here for better fit in any kind
of environment. You should include files from here using...

        #include <curl/curl.h>

... style and point the compiler's include path to the directory holding the
curl subdirectory. It makes it more likely to survive future modifications.

NOTE FOR LIBCURL HACKERS

All the include files in this tree are written and intended to be installed on
a system that may serve multiple platforms and multiple applications, all
using libcurl (possibly even different libcurl installations using different
versions). Therefore, all header files in here must obey these rules:

* They cannot depend on or use configure-generated results from libcurl's or
  curl's directories. Other applications may not run configure as (lib)curl
  does, and using platform dependent info here may break other platforms.

* We cannot assume anything else but very basic compiler features being
  present. While libcurl requires an ANSI C compiler to build, some of the
  earlier ANSI compilers clearly can't deal with some preprocessor operators.

* Newlines must remain unix-style for older compilers' sake.

* Comments must be written in the old-style /* unnested C-fashion */

To figure out how to do good and portable checks for features, operating
systems or specific hardwarare, a very good resource is Bjorn Reese's
collection at http://predef.sf.net/