From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 08:02:13 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: CURLOPT_MIMEPOST.3: add an (inline) example
X-Git-Tag: curl-7_86_0~120
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CURLOPT_MIMEPOST.3: add an (inline) example

Reported-by: Jay Satiro
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/9637#issuecomment-1268070723

Closes #9649
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MIMEPOST.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MIMEPOST.3
index 6560e2b369..5995991d7d 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MIMEPOST.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MIMEPOST.3
@@ -43,9 +43,25 @@ extending the deprecated \fICURLOPT_HTTPPOST(3)\fP option.
 .SH PROTOCOLS
 HTTP, SMTP, IMAP.
 .SH EXAMPLE
-Using this option implies the use of several mime structure building
-functions: see https://curl.se/libcurl/c/smtp-mime.html for a complete
-example.
+.nf
+ curl_mime *multipart = curl_mime_init(handle);
+ curl_mimepart *part = curl_mime_addpart(multipart);
+ curl_mime_name(part, "name");
+ curl_mime_data(part, "daniel", CURL_ZERO_TERMINATED);
+ part = curl_mime_addpart(multipart);
+ curl_mime_name(part, "project");
+ curl_mime_data(part, "curl", CURL_ZERO_TERMINATED);
+ part = curl_mime_addpart(multipart);
+ curl_mime_name(part, "logotype-image");
+ curl_mime_filedata(part, "curl.png");
+
+ /* Set the form info */
+ curl_easy_setopt(handle, CURLOPT_MIMEPOST, multipart);
+
+ curl_easy_perform(handle); /* post away! */
+
+ curl_mime_free(multipart); /* free the post data */
+.fi
 .SH AVAILABILITY
 Added in 7.56.0
 .SH RETURN VALUE