X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/294e9a7aa00c23de9aad973b3998071b81159aee..e490e26798196f61e9aa7fd668ed6489b5c203a5:/docs/latex/wx/http.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/http.tex b/docs/latex/wx/http.tex index b6596637c3..00879c582b 100644 --- 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 of +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. +