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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libfetch/fetch.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libfetch/fetch.3 | 22 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 b/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 index e04917ebcb429..e28cd55c6ef08 100644 --- a/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 +++ b/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd March 18, 2016 +.Dd August 28, 2019 .Dt FETCH 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ .Nm fetchPutHTTP , .Nm fetchStatHTTP , .Nm fetchListHTTP , +.Nm fetchReqHTTP , .Nm fetchXGetFTP , .Nm fetchGetFTP , .Nm fetchPutFTP , @@ -112,6 +113,8 @@ .Ft struct url_ent * .Fn fetchListHTTP "struct url *u" "const char *flags" .Ft FILE * +.Fn fetchReqHTTP "struct url *u" "const char *method" "const char *flags" "const char *content_type" "const char *body" +.Ft FILE * .Fn fetchXGetFTP "struct url *u" "struct url_stat *us" "const char *flags" .Ft FILE * .Fn fetchGetFTP "struct url *u" "const char *flags" @@ -355,9 +358,10 @@ and password "anonymous@<hostname>". .Sh HTTP SCHEME The .Fn fetchXGetHTTP , -.Fn fetchGetHTTP -and +.Fn fetchGetHTTP , .Fn fetchPutHTTP +and +.Fn fetchReqHTTP functions implement the HTTP/1.1 protocol. With a little luck, there is even a chance that they comply with RFC2616 and RFC2617. @@ -387,6 +391,18 @@ will send a conditional HTTP header to only fetch the content if it is newer than .Va ims_time . .Pp +The function +.Fn fetchReqHTTP +can be used to make requests with an arbitrary HTTP verb, +including POST, DELETE, CONNECT, OPTIONS, TRACE or PATCH. +This can be done by setting the argument +.Fa method +to the intended verb, such as +.Ql POST , +and +.Fa body +to the content. +.Pp Since there seems to be no good way of implementing the HTTP PUT method in a manner consistent with the rest of the .Nm fetch |