Kjetil Jacobsen's patch that introduces CURLOPT_PRIVATE and CURLINFO_PRIVATE

for storage and retrieval of private data in the curl handle.

docs/libcurl/curl_easy_getinfo.3

@@ -115,8 +115,12 @@ Pass a pointer to a 'char *' to receive the content-type of the downloaded
 object. This is the value read from the Content-Type: field. If you get NULL,
 it means that the server didn't send a valid Content-Type header or that the
 protocol used doesn't support this.  (Added in 7.9.4)
+.TP
+.B CURLINFO_PRIVATE
+Pass a pointer to a 'char *' to receive the pointer to the private data
+associated with the curl handle (set with the CURLOPT_PRIVATE option to curl_easy_setopt).
+(Added in 7.10.3)
 .PP
-
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 If the operation was successful, CURLE_OK is returned. Otherwise an
 appropriate error code will be returned.

docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3

@@ -763,6 +763,13 @@ krb4 awareness.  This is a string, 'clear', 'safe', 'confidential' or
 will be used. Set the string to NULL to disable kerberos4. The kerberos
 support only works for FTP. (Added in 7.3)
 .PP
+.SH OTHER OPTIONS
+.TP 0.4i
+.B CURLOPT_PRIVATE
+Pass a char * as parameter, pointing to data that should be
+associated with the curl handle.  The pointer can be subsequently retrieved using
+the CURLINFO_PRIVATE options to curl_easy_getinfo. (Added in 7.10.3)
+.PP
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 CURLE_OK (zero) means that the option was set properly, non-zero means an
 error occurred as \fI<curl/curl.h>\fP defines. See the \fIlibcurl-errors.3\fP