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Re: Can the CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION ever be called when CURLOPT_UPLOAD is set to 1?

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 23:24:35 +0100 (CET)

On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote:

> 1) Does CURLOPT_MIMEPOST imply CURLOPT_UPLOAD?

No. For HTTP, CURLOPT_MIMEPOST means POST while CURLOPT_UPLOAD means PUT.

> 2) If setting CURLOPT_UPLOAD to 1 should only be done when supplying the
> data via CURLOPT_READFUNCTION it should be mentioned on the man page of
> CURLOPT_UPLOAD that setting CURLOPT_UPLOAD to 1 should only be done if one
> intends to use CURLOPT_READFUNCTION to provide the data and not use other
> means of providing the data like through CURLOPT_MIMEPOST.

You'll never use CURLOPT_MIMEPOST with CURLOPT_UPLOAD. They're mutually
exclusive. One is POST, the other is PUT.

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Received on 2021-01-17