Base code merged to SPIN 2.4

[platform/upstream/curl.git] / docs / libcurl / curl_formadd.3

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3
index b27e61d..3e48149 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_formadd.3
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ you must set its length  with \fBCURLFORM_CONTENTSLENGTH\fP.
 .IP CURLFORM_CONTENTSLENGTH
 followed by a long giving the length of the contents. Note that for
 \fICURLFORM_STREAM\fP contents, this option is mandatory.
+
+If you pass a 0 (zero) for this option, libcurl will instead do a strlen() on
+the contents to figure out the size. If you really want to send a zero byte
+content then you must make sure strlen() on the data pointer returns zero.
 .IP CURLFORM_FILECONTENT
 followed by a filename, causes that file to be read and its contents used
 as data in this part. This part does \fInot\fP automatically become a file