wxMGL bugfixes

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / latex / wx / http.tex

diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/http.tex b/docs/latex/wx/http.tex
index b6596637c33da72da8d7df9bff3831e55d811819..7b878ead9982ad82fd60a1364a3f1795eaf5cc32 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/latex/wx/http.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/http.tex
@@ -23,10 +23,18 @@
 
 Creates a new input stream on the the specified path. You can use all except the seek
 functionality of wxStream. Seek isn't available on all streams. For example,
-http or ftp streams doesn't deal with it. Other functions like StreamSize and
-Tell aren't available for the moment for this sort of stream.
+http or ftp streams doesn't deal with it. Other functions like Tell and SeekI
+for this sort of stream.
 You will be notified when the EOF is reached by an error.
 
+\wxheading{Note}
+
+You can know the size of the file you are getting using \helpref{wxStreamBase::GetSize()}{wxstreambasegetsize}.
+But there is a limitation: as HTTP servers aren't obliged to pass the size ofi
+the file, in some case, you will be returned 0xfffffff by GetSize(). In these
+cases, you should use the value returned by \helpref{wxInputStream::LastRead()}{wxinputstreamlastread}:
+this value will be 0 when the stream is finished.
+
 \wxheading{Return value}
 
 Returns the initialized stream. You will have to delete it yourself once you
@@ -45,13 +53,18 @@ to be reestablished: but you don't have to take care of this wxHTTP reestablishe
 \func{void}{SetHeader}{\param{const wxString\&}{ header}, \param{const wxString\&}{ h\_data}}
 
 It sets data of a field to be sent during the next request to the HTTP server. The field
-name is specified by \it{header} and the content by \it{h\_data}.
+name is specified by {\it header} and the content by {\it h\_data}.
 This is a low level function and it assumes that you know what you are doing.
 
-\membersection{wxHTTP::SetHeader}
+\membersection{wxHTTP::GetHeader}
 
 \func{wxString}{GetHeader}{\param{const wxString\&}{ header}}
 
-Returns the data attached with a field whose name is specified by \it{header}.
+Returns the data attached with a field whose name is specified by {\it header}.
 If the field doesn't exist, it will return an empty string and not a NULL string.
 
+\wxheading{Note}
+
+The header is not case-sensitive: I mean that "CONTENT-TYPE" and "content-type" 
+represent the same header.
+