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.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
.\" *
.\" **************************************************************************
.\"
-.TH CURLOPT_POST 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
+.TH CURLOPT_POST 3 "May 05, 2017" "libcurl 7.55.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
+
.SH NAME
CURLOPT_POST \- request a HTTP POST
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -68,7 +69,19 @@ re-used handle, you must explicitly set the new request type using
.SH PROTOCOLS
HTTP
.SH EXAMPLE
-TODO
+.nf
+CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
+if(curl) {
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/foo.bin");
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1L);
+
+ /* set up the read callback with CURLOPT_READFUNCTION */
+
+ ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+
+ curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+}
+.fi
.SH AVAILABILITY
Along with HTTP
.SH RETURN VALUE