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authorStephan Holljes <klaxa1337@googlemail.com>2015-06-04 01:16:59 +0200
committerNicolas George <george@nsup.org>2015-06-06 09:13:41 +0200
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lavf/http: Document method option.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Holljes <klaxa1337@googlemail.com>
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@@ -278,6 +278,16 @@ Set initial byte offset.
@item end_offset
Try to limit the request to bytes preceding this offset.
+@item method
+When used as a client option it sets the HTTP method for the request.
+
+When used as a server option it sets the HTTP method that is going to be
+expected from the client(s).
+If the expected and the received HTTP method do not match the client will
+be given a Bad Request response.
+When unset the HTTP method is not checked for now. This will be replaced by
+autodetection in the future.
+
@item listen
If set to 1 enables experimental HTTP server. This can be used to send data when
used as an output option, or read data from a client with HTTP POST when used as