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Re: CURLOPT_INFILESIZE is not optional

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:04:57 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Wei Weng wrote:

> I think I read it from the doc that says if you are going to do a upload,
> you don't have to specify CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, it is optional.

It is optional, but in many cases you want to specify it to make libcurl
behave better.

> However, in my practice, it seems that w/o specifying CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, I
> get an CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE error in the 2nd file I upload using the same CURL
> connection handler.

That sounds like a bug.

> Is that normal? hidden bug? wrong documentation?

What protocol are you using for upload? What libcurl version? Can you provide
source code that shows us how to repeat this problem?

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 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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Received on 2003-10-05