Commit b778ae4c authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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http: add --strip-path-slash and CURLOPT_STRIP_PATH_SLASH 

... to enable sending "OPTIONS *" which wasn't possible previously.

This option currently only works for HTTP.

Added test cases 1298 + 1299 to verify

Fixes #1280
Closes #1462
parent 176ec513

docs/TODO

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@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ 
 5.9 Improve formpost API

 5.10 Leave secure cookies alone

 5.11 Chunked transfer multipart formpost

 5.12 OPTIONS *



 6. TELNET

 6.1 ditch stdin
@@ -558,23 +557,6 @@ This is not detailed in any FTP specification. 


 https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1139



5.12 OPTIONS *



 HTTP defines an OPTIONS method that can be sent with an asterisk option like

 "OPTIONS *" to ask about options from the server and not a specific URL

 resource. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-5.3.4



 libcurl as it currently works will always sent HTTP methods with a path that

 starts with a slash so there's no way for an application to send a proper

 "OPTIONS *" using libcurl. This should be fixed.



 I can't think of any other non-slash paths we should support so it will

 probably make sense to add a new boolean option for issuign an "OPTIONS *"

 request. CURLOPT_OPTIONSASTERISK perhaps (and a corresponding command line

 option)?



 See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1280





6. TELNET

docs/cmdline-opts/Makefile.inc

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@@ -42,6 +42,6 @@ DPAGES = abstract-unix-socket.d anyauth.d append.d basic.d cacert.d capath.d cer 
  tlsauthtype.d tlspassword.d tlsuser.d tlsv1.0.d tlsv1.1.d tlsv1.2.d   \

  tlsv1.3.d tlsv1.d trace-ascii.d trace.d trace-time.d tr-encoding.d    \

  unix-socket.d upload-file.d url.d use-ascii.d user-agent.d user.d     \

  verbose.d version.d write-out.d xattr.d

  verbose.d version.d write-out.d xattr.d strip-path-slash.d



OTHERPAGES = page-footer page-header

docs/cmdline-opts/strip-path-slash.d

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Long: strip-path-slash

Help: Strip off the first slash of the path

Protocols: HTTP

---

Tells curl to strip the leading slash from the path when it sends the path to

the server. Useful when wanting to issue HTTP requests without leading slash,

like "OPTIONS *".

docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3

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.\" *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___

.\" *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|

.\" *

.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.

.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.

.\" *

.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which

.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -303,6 +303,8 @@ Start a new cookie session. See \fICURLOPT_COOKIESESSION(3)\fP 
Add or control cookies. See \fICURLOPT_COOKIELIST(3)\fP

.IP CURLOPT_HTTPGET

Do a HTTP GET request. See \fICURLOPT_HTTPGET(3)\fP

.IP CURLOPT_STRIP_PATH_SLASH

Cut off the leading slash from the path. \fICURLOPT_STRIP_PATH_SLASH(3)\fP

.IP CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION

HTTP version to use. \fICURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION(3)\fP

.IP CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH

docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST.3

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CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER "(3), " CURLOPT_NOBODY "(3), "

.BR CURLOPT_STRIP_PATH_SLASH "(3), "