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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: http.n,v 1.12 2000/09/07 14:27:48 poenitz Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: http.n,v 1.13 2001/09/07 00:03:08 hobbs Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH "Http" n 8.3 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .SH NAME Http \- Client-side implementation of the HTTP/1.0 protocol. .SH SYNOPSIS -\fBpackage require http ?2.3?\fP +\fBpackage require http ?2.3.3?\fP .sp \fB::http::config \fI?options?\fR .sp @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ is \fB"Tcl http client package 2.2."\fR .RE .TP \fB::http::geturl\fP \fIurl\fP ?\fIoptions\fP? -The \fB::http::geturl \fR command is the main procedure in the package. +The \fB::http::geturl\fR command is the main procedure in the package. The \fB\-query\fR option causes a POST operation and the \fB\-validate\fR option causes a HEAD operation; otherwise, a GET operation is performed. The \fB::http::geturl\fR command @@ -126,13 +126,16 @@ that is invoked when the HTTP transaction completes. \fB::http::geturl\fR takes several options: .RS .TP +\fB\-binary\fP \fIboolean\fP +Specifies whether to force interpreting the url data as binary. Normally +this is auto-detected (anything not beginning with a \fBtext\fR content +type or whose content encoding is \fBgzip\fR or \fBcompress\fR is +considered binary data). +.TP \fB\-blocksize\fP \fIsize\fP The blocksize used when reading the URL. -At most -\fIsize\fR -bytes are read at once. After each block, a call to the -\fB\-progress\fR -callback is made (if that option is specified). +At most \fIsize\fR bytes are read at once. After each block, a call to the +\fB\-progress\fR callback is made (if that option is specified). .TP \fB\-channel\fP \fIname\fP Copy the URL contents to channel \fIname\fR instead of saving it in @@ -407,6 +410,15 @@ the array are supported: The contents of the URL. This will be empty if the \fB\-channel\fR option has been specified. This value is returned by the \fB::http::data\fP command. .TP +\fBcharset\fR +The value of the charset attribute from the \fBContent-Type\fR meta-data +value. If none was specified, this defaults to the RFC standard +\fBiso8859-1\fR, or the value of \fB$::http::defaultCharset\fR. Incoming +text data will be automatically converted from this charset to utf-8. +.TP +\fBcoding\fR +A copy of the \fBContent-Encoding\fR meta-data value. +.TP \fBcurrentsize\fR The current number of bytes fetched from the URL. This value is returned by the \fB::http::size\fP command. |