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18 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Daniel Stenberg
5b060a4108
docs: rewrite to present tense
... instead of using future tense.

+ numerous cleanups and improvements
+ stick to "reuse" not "re-use"
+ fewer contractions

Closes #11713
2023-08-23 23:26:10 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
f98344c4ae
man pages: simplify the .TH sections
- remove the version numbers
- simplify the texts

The date and version number will be put there for releases when maketgz
runs the updatemanpages.pl script.

Closes #11029
2023-04-26 10:17:13 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
2bc1d775f5
copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges
- they are mostly pointless in all major jurisdictions
- many big corporations and projects already don't use them
- saves us from pointless churn
- git keeps history for us
- the year range is kept in COPYING

checksrc is updated to allow non-year using copyright statements

Closes #10205
2023-01-03 09:19:21 +01:00
max.mehl
ad9bc5976d
copyright: make repository REUSE compliant
Add licensing and copyright information for all files in this repository. This
either happens in the file itself as a comment header or in the file
`.reuse/dep5`.

This commit also adds a Github workflow to check pull requests and adapts
copyright.pl to the changes.

Closes #8869
2022-06-13 09:13:00 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
230bb3e278
docs: consistent manpage SYNOPSIS
Make all libcurl related options use .nf (no fill) for the SYNOPSIS
section - for consistent look. roffit then renders that section using
<pre> (monospace font) in html for the website.

Extended manpage-syntax (test 1173) with a basic check for it.

Closes #8062
2021-11-26 16:51:23 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
a28464ae77
docs: reduce/avoid English contractions
You're => You are
Hasn't => Has not
Doesn't => Does not
Don't => Do not
You'll => You will
etc

Closes #7930
2021-11-07 23:16:27 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
1fbd822b64
opts docs: unify phrasing in NAME header
- avoid writing "set ..." or "enable/disable ..." or "specify ..."
  *All* options for curl_easy_setopt() are about setting or enabling
  things and most of the existing options didn't use that way of
  description.

- start with lowercase letter, unless abbreviation. For consistency.

- Some additional touch-ups

Closes #7688
2021-09-09 09:55:24 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
4d2f800677
curl.se: new home
Closes #6172
2020-11-04 23:59:47 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
83cc966708
man pages: switch to https://example.com URLs
Since HTTPS is "the new normal", this update changes a lot of man page
examples to use https://example.com instead of the previous "http://..."

Closes #5969
2020-09-17 16:28:18 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
032e838b73
terminology: call them null-terminated strings
Updated terminology in docs, comments and phrases to refer to C strings
as "null-terminated". Done to unify with how most other C oriented docs
refer of them and what users in general seem to prefer (based on a
single highly unscientific poll on twitter).

Reported-by: coinhubs on github
Fixes #5598
Closes #5608
2020-06-28 00:31:24 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
9a8b3b3e13
copyright: fix out-of-date copyright ranges and missing headers
Reported by the new script 'scripts/copyright.pl'. The script has a
regex whitelist for the files that don't need copyright headers.

Removed three (mostly usesless) README files from docs/

Closes #5141
2020-03-24 15:05:59 +01:00
Frank Gevaerts
dbd3793859 docs: Add note about libcurl copying strings to CURLOPT_* manpages
Closes #1169
2017-01-13 15:14:55 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
4af40b3646 URLs: change all http:// URLs to https:// 2016-02-03 00:19:02 +01:00
Jay Satiro
96c0164b88 CURLOPT_COOKIE.3: Explain that the cookies won't be modified
The CURLOPT_COOKIE doc says it "sets the cookie header explicitly in the
outgoing request(s)." However there seems to be some user confusion
about cookie modification. Document that the cookies set by this option
are not modified by the cookie engine.

Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-05/0115.html
Reported-by: Alexander Dyagilev
2015-05-24 19:01:13 -04:00
Daniel Stenberg
8c41f368f5 CURLOPT_*.3: added lots of small example sections 2015-03-17 08:03:46 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
841c9884b2 CURLOPT_COOKIE*: added more cross-references 2014-09-18 22:58:12 +02:00
Dan Fandrich
efbffa2fb7 opts: document CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY as RETURN VALUE 2014-06-18 23:28:13 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
38d517fcd4 opts: 29 more options as man pages 2014-06-18 00:30:02 +02:00