From 0452fd86573a75437c6886639de77a7747685d36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:55:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Georg Huettenegger's updates
---
docs/curl_formadd.3 | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/curl_formadd.3 b/docs/curl_formadd.3
index d16328817f..b8912dbe18 100644
--- a/docs/curl_formadd.3
+++ b/docs/curl_formadd.3
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
.\" nroff -man [file]
.\" $Id$
.\"
-.TH curl_formadd 3 "19 August 2001" "libcurl 7.9" "libcurl Manual"
+.TH curl_formadd 3 "27 August 2001" "libcurl 7.9" "libcurl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl_formadd - add a section to a multipart/formdata HTTP POST
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -24,21 +24,22 @@ After \fIlastitem\fP follow the real arguments that constitute the
new section (if the following description confuses you jump directly
to the examples):
-The first is always CURLFORM_COPYNAME followed by a string used for
-the name of the section.
+CURLFORM_COPYNAME or CURLFORM_PTRNAME followed by a string is used for
+the name of the section. Optionally one may use CURLFORM_NAMELENGTH to
+specify the length of the name (allowing null characters within the name).
-Afterwards one may use one of three arguments: CURLFORM_COPYCONTENTS,
-CURLFORM_PTRCONTENTS, or CURLFORM_FILE. followed by a char or void
+The three options for providing values are: CURLFORM_COPYCONTENTS,
+CURLFORM_PTRCONTENTS, or CURLFORM_FILE, followed by a char or void
pointer (allowed for PTRCONTENTS).
-The next argument may be CURLFORM_CONTENTTYPE if the
+Other arguments may be CURLFORM_CONTENTTYPE if the
user wishes to specify one (for FILE if no type is given the library
tries to provide the correct one; for CONTENTS no Content-Type is sent
in this case)
-For CURLFORM_PTRCONTENTS the user may also add CURLFORM_CONTENTSLENGTH
-followed by the length as a long (if not given the library will use
-strlen to determine the length; for COPYCONTENTS this is always done).
+For CURLFORM_PTRCONTENTS or CURLFORM_COPYNAME the user may also add
+CURLFORM_CONTENTSLENGTH followed by the length as a long (if not given
+the library will use strlen to determine the length).
For CURLFORM_FILE the user may send multiple files in one section by
providing multiple CURLFORM_FILE arguments each followed by the filename
@@ -52,13 +53,13 @@ the function itself. You must call \fIcurl_formfree\fP after the form post has
been done to free the resources again.
This function will copy all input data except the data pointed to by
-the argument after CURLFORM_PTRCONTENTS and keep its own
-version of it allocated until you call \fIcurl_formfree\fP. When
+the arguments after CURLFORM_PTRNAME and CURLFORM_PTRCONTENTS and keep
+its own version of it allocated until you call \fIcurl_formfree\fP. When
you've passed the pointer to \fIcurl_easy_setopt\fP, you must not free
the list until after you've called \fIcurl_easy_cleanup\fP for the
-curl handle. If you provide a pointer as an argument after
-CURLFORM_PTRCONTENTS you must ensure that the pointer stays valid
-until you call \fIcurl_form_free\fP and \fIcurl_easy_cleanup\fP.
+curl handle. If you provide a pointer as an arguments after
+CURLFORM_PTRNAME or CURLFORM_PTRCONTENTS you must ensure that the pointer
+stays valid until you call \fIcurl_form_free\fP and \fIcurl_easy_cleanup\fP.
See example below.
.SH RETURN VALUE
@@ -68,6 +69,8 @@ Returns non-zero if an error occurs.
HttpPost* post = NULL;
HttpPost* last = NULL;
+ char namebuffer[] = "name buffer";
+ long namelength = strlen(namebuffer);
char buffer[] = "test buffer";
char htmlbuffer[] = "<HTML>test buffer</HTML>";
long htmlbufferlength = strlen(htmlbuffer);
@@ -84,8 +87,12 @@ Returns non-zero if an error occurs.
CURLFORM_COPYCONTENTS, "<HTML></HTML>",
CURLFORM_CONTENTTYPE, "text/html", CURLFORM_END);
/* Add name/ptrcontent section */
- curl_formadd(&post, &past, CURLFORM_COPYNAME, "name_for_ptrcontent",
+ curl_formadd(&post, &last, CURLFORM_COPYNAME, "name_for_ptrcontent",
CURLFORM_PTRCONTENTS, buffer, CURLFORM_END);
+ /* Add ptrname/ptrcontent section */
+ curl_formadd(&post, &last, CURLFORM_PTRNAME, namebuffer,
+ CURLFORM_PTRCONTENTS, buffer, CURLFORM_NAMELENGTH,
+ namelength, CURLFORM_END);
/* Add name/ptrcontent/contenttype section */
curl_formadd(&post, &last, CURLFORM_COPYNAME, "html_code_with_hole",
CURLFORM_PTRCONTENTS, htmlbuffer,
--
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