EVOLUTION-MANAGER

Edit File: getinmemory.c

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/* 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.
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include <curl/curl.h>

struct MemoryStruct {
  char *memory;
  size_t size;
};

static size_t
WriteMemoryCallback(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
{
  size_t realsize = size * nmemb;
  struct MemoryStruct *mem = (struct MemoryStruct *)userp;

mem->memory = realloc(mem->memory, mem->size + realsize + 1);
  if (mem->memory == NULL) {
    /* out of memory! */
    printf("not enough memory (realloc returned NULL)\n");
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }

memcpy(&(mem->memory[mem->size]), contents, realsize);
  mem->size += realsize;
  mem->memory[mem->size] = 0;

return realsize;
}

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl_handle;

struct MemoryStruct chunk;

chunk.memory = malloc(1);  /* will be grown as needed by the realloc above */
  chunk.size = 0;    /* no data at this point */

curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);

/* init the curl session */
  curl_handle = curl_easy_init();

/* specify URL to get */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");

/* 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_WRITEDATA, (void *)&chunk);

/* 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");

/* 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!
   *
   * You should be aware of the fact that at this point we might have an
   * allocated data block, and nothing has yet deallocated that data. So when
   * you're done with it, you should free() it as a nice application.
   */

printf("%lu bytes retrieved\n", (long)chunk.size);

if(chunk.memory)
    free(chunk.memory);

/* we're done with libcurl, so clean it up */
  curl_global_cleanup();

return 0;
}