1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>ne_set_request_flag</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../manual.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="neon HTTP/WebDAV client library"><link rel="up" href="ref.html" title="neon API reference"><link rel="prev" href="refopts.html" title="ne_set_useragent"><link rel="next" href="refreqbody.html" title="ne_set_request_body_buffer"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ne_set_request_flag</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="refopts.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">neon API reference</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="refreqbody.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry" title="ne_set_request_flag"><a name="refreqflags"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ne_set_request_flag, ne_get_request_flag — set and retrieve per-request flags</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><pre class="funcsynopsisinfo">#include <ne_request.h></pre><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">void <b class="fsfunc">ne_set_request_flag</b>(</code></td><td>ne_request *<var class="pdparam">req</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>ne_request_flag <var class="pdparam">flag</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int <var class="pdparam">value</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">ne_get_request_flag</b>(</code></td><td>ne_request *<var class="pdparam">req</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>ne_request_flag <var class="pdparam">flag</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a name="id458246"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>The <code class="function">ne_set_request_flag</code> function 2 enables or disables a per-request flag. Passing a non-zero 3 <code class="parameter">value</code> argument enables the flag, and zero 4 disables it.</p><p>The following flags are defined:</p><div class="variablelist"><table border="0"><col align="left" valign="top"><tbody><tr><td><p><span class="term"><code class="constant">NE_REQFLAG_EXPECT100</code></span></p></td><td>enable this flag to use the "Expect: 5 100-continue" feature of HTTP/1.1, which allows the 6 server to process request headers without reading the 7 entire request body. This saves time and bandwidth if 8 the server gives an authentication challenge (requiring 9 the request to be resent), but has interoperability 10 problems with some older servers.</td></tr><tr><td><p><span class="term"><code class="constant">NE_REQFLAG_IDEMPOTENT</code></span></p></td><td>disable this flag if the request uses a 11 non-idempotent method such as 12 <code class="literal">POST</code></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Return value"><a name="id458309"></a><h2>Return value</h2><p>The <code class="function">ne_get_request_flag</code> function returns 13 zero if a flag is disabled, less than zero if the flag is not 14 supported, or greater than zero if the flag is enabled.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="See also"><a name="id458325"></a><h2>See also</h2><p><a class="xref" href="refreq.html#ne_request_create">ne_request_create</a>.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="refopts.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ref.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="refreqbody.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ne_set_useragent </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ne_set_request_body_buffer</td></tr></table></div></body></html> 15