Daniel Stenberg 5a488251f7

- 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

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Title

Section

Source

See-also

Protocol

Added-in

curl

CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE

libcurl

CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS (3)

CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS (3)

CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE (3)

HTTP

7.11.1

NAME

CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE - size of POST data pointed to

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE,
                          curl_off_t size);

DESCRIPTION

If you want to post static data to the server without having libcurl do a strlen() to measure the data size, this option must be used. When this option is used you can post fully binary data, which otherwise is likely to fail. If this size is set to -1, libcurl uses strlen() to get the size or relies on the CURLOPT_READFUNCTION(3) (if used) to signal the end of data.

DEFAULT

-1

%PROTOCOLS%

EXAMPLE

extern char *large_chunk; /* pointer to somewhere */

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    const char *data = large_chunk;
    curl_off_t length_of_data; /* set somehow */

    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");

    /* size of the POST data */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE, length_of_data);

    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, data);

    curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

%AVAILABILITY%

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK if HTTP is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

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