From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:01:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: CURLOPT_NOBODY means HEAD on HTTP servers
X-Git-Tag: curl-7_10_8~181
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b864e25011ff109307bcac8fffffc3aeb983aaec;p=curl

CURLOPT_NOBODY means HEAD on HTTP servers
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index a91fc1e32..6ae4ae9b9 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ can be used after a transfer to extract the received time (if any).
 .B CURLOPT_NOBODY
 A non-zero parameter tells the library to not include the body-part in the
 output. This is only relevant for protocols that have separate header and body
-parts.
+parts. On HTTP(S) servers, this will make libcurl do a HEAD request.
 .TP
 .B CURLOPT_INFILESIZE
 When uploading a file to a remote site, this option should be used to tell