Merge pull request #38 from curl/master

docs: mention CURL_MAX_INPUT_LENGTH restrictions
sthagen · Jan 5, 2020 · fdc896e · fdc896e
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .\" *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 .\" *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 .\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2019, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2020, 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
@@ -623,6 +623,10 @@ TELNET options. See \fICURLOPT_TELNETOPTIONS(3)\fP
 error occurred as \fI<curl/curl.h>\fP defines. See the \fIlibcurl-errors(3)\fP
 man page for the full list with descriptions.
 
+Strings passed on to libcurl must be shorter than 8000000 bytes, otherwise
+\fIcurl_easy_setopt(3)\fP returns \fBCURLE_BAD_FUNCTION_ARGUMENT\fP (added in
+7.65.0).
+
 If you try to set an option that libcurl doesn't know about, perhaps because
 the library is too old to support it or the option was removed in a recent
 version, this function will return \fICURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION\fP. If support for

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_url_set.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_url_set.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .\" *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 .\" *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 .\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2019, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2020, 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
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ permits empty authority sections, similar to how file scheme is handled.
 Returns a CURLUcode error value, which is CURLUE_OK (0) if everything went
 fine.
 
+A URL string passed on to \fIcurl_url_set(3)\fP for the \fBCURLUPART_URL\fP
+part, must be shorter than 8000000 bytes otherwise it returns
+\fBCURLUE_MALFORMED_INPUT\fP (added in 7.65.0).
+
 If this function returns an error, no URL part is returned.
 .SH EXAMPLE
 .nf