Unverified Commit 427fa512 authored by John Marshall's avatar John Marshall Committed by Daniel Stenberg
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doc: use meaningless port number in CURLOPT_LOCALPORT example 

Use an ephemeral port number here; previously the example had 8080
which could be confusing as the common web server port number might
be misinterpreted as suggesting this option affects the remote port.

URL: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2019-01/0084.html
Closes #3513
parent 06f744d4

docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_LOCALPORT.3

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CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();

if(curl) {

  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/foo.bin");

  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOCALPORT, 8080L);

  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOCALPORT, 49152L);

  /* and try 20 more ports following that */

  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE, 20L);

  ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);

docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE.3

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CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();

if(curl) {

  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/foo.bin");

  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOCALPORT, 8080L);

  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOCALPORT, 49152L);

  /* and try 20 more ports following that */

  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE, 20L);

  ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);