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* $Id: getinmemory.c,v 1.1.1.1 2012/03/29 17:21:21 uid42307 Exp $
*
* Example source code to show how the callback function can be used to
* download data into a chunk of memory instead of storing it in a file.
*
* This exact source code has not been verified to work.
*/
/* to make this work under windows, use the win32-functions from the
win32socket.c file as well */
#include "curl/curl.h"
#include "curl/types.h"
#include "curl/easy.h"
struct MemoryStruct {
char *memory;
size_t size;
};
size_t
WriteMemoryCallback(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *data)
{
register int realsize = size * nmemb;
struct MemoryStruct *mem = (struct MemoryStruct *)data;
mem->memory = (char *)realloc(mem->memory, mem->size + realsize + 1);
if (mem->memory) {
memcpy(&(mem->memory[mem->size]), ptr, realsize);
mem->size += realsize;
mem->memory[mem->size] = 0;
}
return realsize;
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
CURL *curl_handle;
struct MemoryStruct chunk;
chunk.memory=NULL; /* we expect realloc(NULL, size) to work */
chunk.size = 0; /* no data at this point */
curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT);
/* init the curl session */
curl_handle = curl_easy_init();
/* specify URL to get */
curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html");
/* send all data to this function */
curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteMemoryCallback);
/* we pass our 'chunk' struct to the callback function */
curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_FILE, (void *)&chunk);
/* get it! */
curl_easy_perform(curl_handle);
/* cleanup curl stuff */
curl_easy_cleanup(curl_handle);
/*
* Now, our chunk.memory points to a memory block that is chunk.size
* bytes big and contains the remote file.
*
* Do something nice with it!
*/
/* For example display it... */
write(1, chunk.memory, chunk.size);
return 0;
}