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doc/protocols: Fill in missing HTTP options 

Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
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@ -492,6 +492,10 @@ contains the last non-empty metadata packet sent by the server. It should be
polled in regular intervals by applications interested in mid-stream metadata
updates.
@item metadata
Set an exported dictionary containing Icecast metadata from the bitstream, if present.
Only useful with the C API.
@item auth_type
Set HTTP authentication type. No option for Digest, since this method requires
@ -519,6 +523,10 @@ Send an Expect: 100-continue header for POST. If set to 1 it will send, if set
to 0 it won't, if set to -1 it will try to send if it is applicable. Default
value is -1.
@item location
An exported dictionary containing the content location. Only useful with the C
API.
@item offset
Set initial byte offset.
@ -535,6 +543,9 @@ be given a Bad Request response.
When unset the HTTP method is not checked for now. This will be replaced by
autodetection in the future.
@item reconnect
Reconnect automatically when disconnected before EOF is hit.
@item reconnect_at_eof
If set then eof is treated like an error and causes reconnection, this is useful
for live / endless streams.
@ -550,7 +561,13 @@ include specific status codes (e.g. '503') or the strings '4xx' / '5xx'.
If set then even streamed/non seekable streams will be reconnected on errors.
@item reconnect_delay_max
Sets the maximum delay in seconds after which to give up reconnecting
Set the maximum delay in seconds after which to give up reconnecting.
@item reconnect_max_retries
Set the maximum number of times to retry a connection. Default unset.
@item reconnect_delay_total_max
Set the maximum total delay in seconds after which to give up reconnecting.
@item listen
If set to 1 enables experimental HTTP server. This can be used to send data when
@ -578,6 +595,17 @@ ffmpeg -i somefile.ogg -chunked_post 0 -c copy -f ogg http://@var{server}:@var{p
wget --post-file=somefile.ogg http://@var{server}:@var{port}
@end example
@item resource
The resource requested by a client, when the experimental HTTP server is in use.
@item reply_code
The HTTP code returned to the client, when the experimental HTTP server is in use.
@item short_seek_size
Set the threshold, in bytes, for when a readahead should be prefered over a seek and
new HTTP request. This is useful, for example, to make sure the same connection
is used for reading large video packets with small audio packets in between.
@end table
@subsection HTTP Cookies