diff --git a/docs/examples/Makefile.am b/docs/examples/Makefile.am
index e81e4b8401376d0332e4e38f7417e2826a17562f..b9419bce50243b6d8ec112a3cdebf909debf4dce 100644
--- a/docs/examples/Makefile.am
+++ b/docs/examples/Makefile.am
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = README curlgtk.c sepheaders.c simple.c postit2.c		\
  ftpupload.c httpput.c simplessl.c ftpgetresp.c http-post.c		\
  post-callback.c multi-app.c multi-double.c multi-single.c		\
  multi-post.c fopen.c simplepost.c makefile.dj curlx.c https.c		\
- multi-debugcallback.c fileupload.c
+ multi-debugcallback.c fileupload.c getinfo.c
 
 all:
 	@echo "done"
diff --git a/docs/examples/getinfo.c b/docs/examples/getinfo.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..733262a3e91ea9675958b3492d9e23b64e2b9fb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/getinfo.c
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/*****************************************************************************
+ *                                  _   _ ____  _
+ *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
+ *                             / __| | | | |_) | |
+ *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
+ *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+ *
+ * $Id$
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+  CURL *curl;
+  CURLcode res;
+
+  curl = curl_easy_init();
+  if(curl) {
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "curl.haxx.se");
+    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+
+    if(CURLE_OK == res) {
+      char *ct;
+      /* ask for the content-type */
+      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE, &ct);
+
+      if((CURLE_OK == res) && ct)
+        printf("We received Content-Type: %s\n", ct);
+    }
+
+    /* always cleanup */
+    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+  }
+  return 0;
+}