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Author SHA1 Message Date
Daniel Stenberg
4501b7e28d
docs/libcurl: return value overhall
Unified, extended, clarified the return values for numerous functions

Closes #15899
2025-01-02 16:58:05 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
5a488251f7
curldown: fixups
- make DEFAULT sections less repetitive

- make historic mentions use HISTORY

- generate the protocols section on `# %PROTOCOLS%` instead of guessing
  where to put it

- generate the availability section on `# %AVAILABILITY%` instead of
  guessing where to put it

- make the protocols section more verbose

Closes #14227
2024-07-19 17:03:25 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
8c1d9378ac
curldown: make 'added-in:' a mandatory header field
- generate AVAILABILITY manpage sections automatically - for consistent
  wording

- allows us to double-check against other documumentation (symbols-in-versions
  etc)

- enables proper automation/scripting based on this data

- lots of them were wrong or missing in the manpages

- several of them repeated (sometimes mismatching) backend support info

Add test 1488 to verify "added-in" version numbers against
symbols-in-versions.

Closes #14217
2024-07-18 18:04:09 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
655d44d139
urlapi: add CURLU_NO_GUESS_SCHEME
Used for extracting:

- when used asking for a scheme, it will return CURLUE_NO_SCHEME if the
  stored information was a guess

- when used asking for a URL, the URL is returned without a scheme, like
  when previously given to the URL parser when it was asked to guess

- as soon as the scheme is set explicitly, it is no longer internally
  marked as guessed

The idea being:

1. allow a user to figure out if a URL's scheme was set as a result of
  guessing

2. extract the URL without a guessed scheme

3. this makes it work similar to how we already deal with port numbers

Extend test 1560 to verify.

Closes #13616
2024-06-01 23:51:42 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
229c144fe8
curl_url_get.md: clarify queries and fragments and CURLU_GET_EMPTY
Follow-up to 3eac21d86b

Closes #13407
2024-04-18 16:13:34 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
3eac21d86b
urlapi: add CURLU_GET_EMPTY for empty queries and fragments
By default the API inhibits empty queries and fragments extracted.
Unless this new flag is set.

This also makes the behavior more consistent: without it set, zero
length queries and fragments are considered not present in the URL. With
the flag set, they are returned as a zero length strings if they were in
fact present in the URL.

This applies when extracting the individual query and fragment
components and for the full URL.

Closes #13396
2024-04-18 10:37:28 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
e3fe020089
docs/libcurl: generate PROTOCOLS from meta-data
Remove the PROTOCOLS section from the source files completely and
instead generate them based on the header data in the curldown files.

It also generates TLS backend information for options marked for TLS as
protocol.

Closes #13175
2024-03-23 18:13:03 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
b935fd4a07
docs: make each libcurl man specify protocol(s)
The mandatory header now has a mandatory list of protocols for which the
manpage is relevant.

Most man pages already has a "PROTOCOLS" section, but this introduces a
stricter way to specify the relevant protocols.

cd2nroff verifies that at least one protocol is mentioned (which can be
`*`).

This information is not used just yet, but A) the PROTOCOLS section can
now instead get generated and get a unified wording across all manpages
and B) this allows us to more reliably filter/search for protocol
specific manpages/options.

Closes #13166
2024-03-21 15:27:06 +01:00
Daniel Gustafsson
8d67c61c47 curldown: Fix email address in Copyright
The curldown conversion accidentally replaced daniel@haxx.se with
just daniel.se.  This reverts back to the proper email address in
the curldown docs as well as in a few other stray places where it
was incorrect (while unrelated to curldown).

Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Closes: #12997
2024-02-28 11:28:10 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
dc3eb678da
badwords: use hostname, not host name
and username, filename - consistently. Fixed the patterns in
badwords.txt to catch these.

Closes #12888
2024-02-07 08:25:52 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
e5000e797f
GHA: add a job scanning for "bad words" in markdown
This means words, phrases or things we have decided not to use - words that
are spelled right according to the dictionary but we want to avoid. In the
name of consistency and better documentation.

Closes #12764
2024-01-24 08:44:34 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
eefcc1bda4
docs: introduce "curldown" for libcurl man page format
curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown
inspired with differences:

- Each file has a set of leading headers with meta-data
- Supports a small subset of markdown
- Uses .md file extensions for editors/IDE/GitHub to treat them nicely
- Generates man pages very similar to the previous ones
- Generates man pages that still convert nicely to HTML on the website
- Detects and highlights mentions of curl symbols automatically (when
  their man page section is specified)

tools:

- cd2nroff: converts from curldown to nroff man page
- nroff2cd: convert an (old) nroff man page to curldown
- cdall: convert many nroff pages to curldown versions
- cd2cd: verifies and updates a curldown to latest curldown

This setup generates .3 versions of all the curldown versions at build time.

CI:

Since the documentation is now technically markdown in the eyes of many
things, the CI runs many more tests and checks on this documentation,
including proselint, link checkers and tests that make sure we capitalize the
first letter after a period...

Closes #12730
2024-01-23 00:29:02 +01:00