QNetworkAccessManager: add method to send custom requests

This method was added to support e.g. HTTP OPTIONS (needed by Webkit);
rather than adding one method for each of those exotic verbs, there is
now a generic version for all.

Reviewed-by: Markus Goetz
Reviewed-by: Andreas Kling
Task-number: QTBUG-8206

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/network/access/qnetworkrequest.cpp b/src/network/access/qnetworkrequest.cpp
index b8438a2..e563f4e 100644
--- a/src/network/access/qnetworkrequest.cpp
+++ b/src/network/access/qnetworkrequest.cpp
@@ -182,6 +182,12 @@ QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
         Indicates whether the HTTP pipelining was used for receiving
         this reply.
 
+    \value CustomVerbAttribute
+       Requests only, type: QVariant::ByteArray
+        Holds the value for the custom HTTP verb to send (destined for usage
+        of other verbs than GET, POST, PUT and DELETE). This verb is set
+        when calling QNetworkAccessManager::sendCustomRequest().
+
     \value User
         Special type. Additional information can be passed in
         QVariants with types ranging from User to UserMax. The default