add 2 curl examples

1 files changed, 100 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/curl_tomem.c b/curl_tomem.c
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+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+
+/* dump curl result into a memory instead of FILE * */
+struct curl_inmem
+{
+    char *memory;
+    size_t size; /* size is used as an index */
+};
+typedef struct curl_inmem curl_inmem_t;
+
+void dump_curlmem(void *data)
+{
+    curl_inmem_t *mem = (curl_inmem_t *) data;
+    size_t iter = 0;
+    while (iter < mem->size)
+        putchar(mem->memory[iter++]);
+}
+
+size_t write_data(char *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userdata)
+{
+    size_t realsize = size * nmemb;
+    curl_inmem_t *mem = (curl_inmem_t *) userdata;
+
+    mem->memory = realloc(mem->memory, mem->size + realsize + 1);
+    if (!mem->memory)
+    {
+        perror("failed to resize curl in memory");
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+    }
+
+    memcpy(&(mem->memory[mem->size]), ptr, realsize);
+    mem->size += realsize;
+    mem->memory[mem->size] = 0;
+
+    return realsize;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+    if (argc != 2)
+    {
+        fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s <url>\n", argv[0]);
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    CURL *curl_handle;
+    CURLcode ret;
+
+    curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
+    curl_handle = curl_easy_init();
+    if (curl_handle)
+    {
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, argv[1]);
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1L);
+        /* some servers don't like requests that are made without a user-agent
+         * field, so we provide one */ 
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0");
+        char err_buff[CURL_ERROR_SIZE];
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, err_buff);
+
+        /* by default passes NULL aka stdout */
+        curl_inmem_t chunk = { 0, 0 };
+        chunk.memory = (char *) malloc(sizeof(char));
+        if (!chunk.memory)
+            perror("failed to create a chunk");
+        else
+        {
+            curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *) &chunk);
+            /* send all data to this function  */
+            curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_data);
+        }
+
+        if ((ret = curl_easy_perform(curl_handle)) != CURLE_OK)
+            fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", err_buff);
+        else
+        {
+            /* ask for the content-type */
+            char *ct;
+            ret = curl_easy_getinfo(curl_handle, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE, &ct);
+            if ((CURLE_OK == ret) && ct)
+                printf("Content-Type: %s\n", ct);
+        }
+
+        /* print out */
+        dump_curlmem(&chunk);
+
+        /* always cleanup */
+        curl_easy_cleanup(curl_handle);
+        if (chunk.memory)
+            free(chunk.memory);
+        /* we're done with libcurl, so clean it up */ 
+        curl_global_cleanup();
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}
+