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| author | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2021-05-04 11:15:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Dr. David von Oheimb <dev@ddvo.net> | 2021-05-14 19:24:42 +0200 |
| commit | 8b5ca5111ed9d7907e2de91a5af5b5407a46eaf1 (patch) | |
| tree | 7942ee91430b799e4d1e4bb6ce7eab3838ff45c6 /doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod | |
| parent | 829902879eb7ba1260a9444f6b6b91d84ca61037 (diff) | |
HTTP client: Allow streaming of request data (for POST method)
Also clean up OSSL_HTTP_REQ_CTX_nbio() states and make it more efficient.
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/15053)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod index 71294913e5..6760c515e7 100644 --- a/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod +++ b/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod @@ -153,7 +153,8 @@ and expectations on the response using the following parameters. If I<path> is NULL it defaults to "/". If I<req> is NULL the HTTP GET method will be used to send the request else HTTP POST with the contents of I<req> and optional I<content_type>, where -I<req> must contain data with determined length; streaming is not supported. +the length of the data in I<req> does not need to be determined in advance: the +BIO will be read on-the-fly while sending the request, which supports streaming. The optional list I<headers> may contain additional custom HTTP header lines. If the parameter I<expected_content_type> is not NULL then the client will check that the given content type string |