curl/docs/examples/getinmemory.c
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copyright: make repository REUSE compliant
Add licensing and copyright information for all files in this repository. This
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This commit also adds a Github workflow to check pull requests and adapts
copyright.pl to the changes.

Closes #8869
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/***************************************************************************
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* Project ___| | | | _ \| |
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* \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
*
* Copyright (C) 1998 - 2022, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
*
* This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
* you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
* are also available at https://curl.se/docs/copyright.html.
*
* You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
* copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
* furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
*
* This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
* KIND, either express or implied.
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
*
***************************************************************************/
/* <DESC>
* Shows how the write callback function can be used to download data into a
* chunk of memory instead of storing it in a file.
* </DESC>
*/
#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;
char *ptr = realloc(mem->memory, mem->size + realsize + 1);
if(!ptr) {
/* out of memory! */
printf("not enough memory (realloc returned NULL)\n");
return 0;
}
mem->memory = ptr;
memcpy(&(mem->memory[mem->size]), contents, realsize);
mem->size += realsize;
mem->memory[mem->size] = 0;
return realsize;
}
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl_handle;
CURLcode res;
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, "https://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 do not 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! */
res = curl_easy_perform(curl_handle);
/* check for errors */
if(res != CURLE_OK) {
fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
curl_easy_strerror(res));
}
else {
/*
* 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!
*/
printf("%lu bytes retrieved\n", (unsigned long)chunk.size);
}
/* cleanup curl stuff */
curl_easy_cleanup(curl_handle);
free(chunk.memory);
/* we are done with libcurl, so clean it up */
curl_global_cleanup();
return 0;
}