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examples/post-callback: stop returning one byte at a time 

... since people copy and paste code from this example and thus they get
an inefficient POST operation without a good reason and sometimes
without understanding why.

Instead this now returns as much data as possible.
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Daniel Stenberg 2017-09-04 11:39:59 +02:00
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docs/examples/post-callback.c
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@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
* | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
* \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
*
* Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
* Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, 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
@ -20,36 +20,45 @@
*
***************************************************************************/
/* <DESC>
* An example source code that issues a HTTP POST and we provide the actual
* data through a read callback.
* Issue an HTTP POST and provide the data through the read callback.
* </DESC>
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>
static const char data[]="this is what we post to the silly web server";
/* silly test data to POST */
static const char data[]="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing "
"elit. Sed vel urna neque. Ut quis leo metus. Quisque eleifend, ex at "
"laoreet rhoncus, odio ipsum semper metus, at tempus ante urna in mauris. "
"Suspendisse ornare tempor venenatis. Ut dui neque, pellentesque a varius "
"eget, mattis vitae ligula. Fusce ut pharetra est. Ut ullamcorper mi ac "
"sollicitudin semper. Praesent sit amet tellus varius, posuere nulla non, "
"rhoncus ipsum.";
struct WriteThis {
const char *readptr;
long sizeleft;
size_t sizeleft;
};
static size_t read_callback(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
static size_t read_callback(void *dest, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
{
struct WriteThis *pooh = (struct WriteThis *)userp;
struct WriteThis *wt = (struct WriteThis *)userp;
size_t buffer_size = size*nmemb;
if(size*nmemb < 1)
return 0;
if(wt->sizeleft) {
/* copy as much as possible from the source to the destination */
size_t copy_this_much = wt->sizeleft;
if(copy_this_much > buffer_size)
copy_this_much = buffer_size;
memcpy(dest, wt->readptr, copy_this_much);
if(pooh->sizeleft) {
*(char *)ptr = pooh->readptr[0]; /* copy one single byte */
pooh->readptr++; /* advance pointer */
pooh->sizeleft--; /* less data left */
return 1; /* we return 1 byte at a time! */
wt->readptr += copy_this_much;
wt->sizeleft -= copy_this_much;
return copy_this_much; /* we copied this many bytes */
}
return 0; /* no more data left to deliver */
return 0; /* no more data left to deliver */
}
int main(void)
@ -57,10 +66,10 @@ int main(void)
CURL *curl;
CURLcode res;
struct WriteThis pooh;
struct WriteThis wt;
pooh.readptr = data;
pooh.sizeleft = (long)strlen(data);
wt.readptr = data;
wt.sizeleft = strlen(data);
/* In windows, this will init the winsock stuff */
res = curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT);
@ -75,7 +84,7 @@ int main(void)
curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
/* First set the URL that is about to receive our POST. */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/index.cgi");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/index.cgi");
/* Now specify we want to POST data */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1L);
@ -84,7 +93,7 @@ int main(void)
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, read_callback);
/* pointer to pass to our read function */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READDATA, &pooh);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READDATA, &wt);
/* get verbose debug output please */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L);
@ -108,7 +117,7 @@ int main(void)
#else
/* Set the expected POST size. If you want to POST large amounts of data,
consider CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, pooh.sizeleft);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, wt.sizeleft);
#endif
#ifdef DISABLE_EXPECT