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Commit 99d17a5e authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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examples/README: cut out the incomplete list

... and add a generic explanation for them instead. Each example file
should contain its own description these days.
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EXAMPLES
anyauthput.c - HTTP PUT using "any" authentication method
cacertinmem.c - Use a built-in PEM certificate to retrieve a https page
cookie_interface.c - shows usage of simple cookie interface
curlgtk.c - download using a GTK progress bar
curlx.c - getting file info from the remote cert data
debug.c - showing how to use the debug callback
fileupload.c - uploading to a file:// URL
fopen.c - fopen() layer that supports opening URLs and files
ftpget.c - simple getting a file from FTP
ftpgetresp.c - get the response strings from the FTP server
ftpupload.c - upload a file to an FTP server
ftpuploadresume.c - resume an upload to an FTP server
getinfo.c - get the Content-Type from the recent transfer
getinmemory.c - download a file to memory only
ghiper.c - curl_multi_socket() using code with glib-2
hiperfifo.c - downloads all URLs written to the fifo, using
curl_multi_socket() and libevent
htmltidy.c - download a document and use libtidy to parse the HTML
htmltitle.cc - download a HTML file and extract the <title> tag from a HTML
page using libxml
http-post.c - HTTP POST
httpput.c - HTTP PUT a local file
https.c - simple HTTPS transfer
imap.c - simple IMAP transfer
multi-app.c - a multi-interface app
multi-debugcallback.c - a multi-interface app using the debug callback
multi-double.c - a multi-interface app doing two simultaneous transfers
multi-post.c - a multi-interface app doing a multipart formpost
multi-single.c - a multi-interface app getting a single file
multi-uv.c - a multi-interface app using libuv
multithread.c - an example using multi-treading transferring multiple files
opensslthreadlock.c - show how to do locking when using OpenSSL multi-threaded
persistant.c - request two URLs with a persistent connection
pop3s.c - POP3S transfer
pop3slist.c - POP3S LIST
post-callback.c - send a HTTP POST using a callback
postit2.c - send a HTTP multipart formpost
sampleconv.c - showing how a program on a non-ASCII platform would invoke
callbacks to do its own codeset conversions instead of using
the built-in iconv functions in libcurl
sepheaders.c - download headers to a separate file
simple.c - the most simple download a URL source
simplepost.c - HTTP POST
simplessl.c - HTTPS example with certificates many options set
synctime.c - Sync local time by extracting date from remote HTTP servers
url2file.c - download a document and store it in a file
xmlstream.c - Stream-parse a document using the streaming Expat parser
10-at-a-time.c - Download many files simultaneously, 10 at a time.
Each example source code file is designed to be and work stand-alone and
rather self-explanatory. The examples may at times lack the level of error
checks you need in a real world, but that is then only for the sake of
readability: to make the code smaller and easier to follow.
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