curl
Free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library supporting almost every protocol.
Website: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
Platforms supported: Win32, Linux, DOS
Headers to include: curl.bi
Header version: 7.24.0
Examples: in examples/network/curl/
Example
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'' Curl HTTP Get example
#include once "curl.bi"
#include once "crt/string.bi"
'' this callback will be called when any data is received
Private Function write_callback cdecl _
( _
ByVal buffer As Byte Ptr, _
ByVal size As Integer, _
ByVal nitems As Integer, _
ByVal outstream As Any Ptr _
) As Integer
Static As ZString Ptr zstr = 0
Static As Integer maxbytes = 0
Dim As Integer bytes = size * nitems
'' current zstring buffer too small?
If( maxbytes < bytes ) Then
zstr = Reallocate( zstr, bytes + 1 )
maxbytes = bytes
End If
'' "buffer" is not null-terminated, so we must dup it and add the null-term
memcpy( zstr, buffer, bytes )
zstr[bytes] = 0
'' just print it..
Print *zstr
Return bytes
End Function
'' init
Dim As CURL Ptr curl = curl_easy_init( )
If( curl = 0 ) Then
End 1
End If
'' set url and callback
curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_URL, "freebasic.net" )
curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, @write_callback )
'' execute..
curl_easy_perform( curl )
'' shutdown
curl_easy_cleanup( curl )
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