Imported Upstream version 7.59.0

[platform/upstream/curl.git] / docs / libcurl / opts / CURLOPT_POST.3

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.3
index 7754c7d..84a33d3 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POST.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .\" *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 .\" *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 .\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, 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
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
 .\" *
 .\" **************************************************************************
 .\"
-.TH CURLOPT_POST 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
+.TH CURLOPT_POST 3 "May 05, 2017" "libcurl 7.59.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
+
 .SH NAME
 CURLOPT_POST \- request a HTTP POST
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -68,7 +69,19 @@ re-used handle, you must explicitly set the new request type using
 .SH PROTOCOLS
 HTTP
 .SH EXAMPLE
-TODO
+.nf
+CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
+if(curl) {
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/foo.bin");
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1L);
+
+  /* set up the read callback with CURLOPT_READFUNCTION */
+
+  ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+
+  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+}
+.fi
 .SH AVAILABILITY
 Along with HTTP
 .SH RETURN VALUE