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.