postinmemory: new example

This is similar to getinmemory.c but with an initial POST.

Combined-by: Ulf Samuelsson

diff --git a/docs/examples/Makefile.inc b/docs/examples/Makefile.inc
index 6752db43d8649df55e71b92dc785713e2687c202..5d3bcfc1a3964aebe03fdc773cf193b552c92989 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/examples/Makefile.inc
+++ b/docs/examples/Makefile.inc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ check_PROGRAMS = 10-at-a-time anyauthput cookie_interface debug fileupload \
   persistant post-callback postit2 sepheaders simple simplepost simplessl  \
   sendrecv httpcustomheader certinfo chkspeed ftpgetinfo ftp-wildcard \
   smtp-multi simplesmtp smtp-tls rtsp externalsocket resolve \
-  progressfunc pop3s pop3slist imap url2file sftpget ftpsget
+  progressfunc pop3s pop3slist imap url2file sftpget ftpsget postinmemory
 
 # These examples require external dependencies that may not be commonly
 # available on POSIX systems, so don't bother attempting to compile them here.

diff --git a/docs/examples/postinmemory.c b/docs/examples/postinmemory.c
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..cd2bd13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/postinmemory.c
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+/***************************************************************************
+ *                                  _   _ ____  _
+ *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
+ *                             / __| | | | |_) | |
+ *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
+ *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2013, 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 http://curl.haxx.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.
+ *
+ ***************************************************************************/
+#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");
+    return 0;
+  }
+
+  memcpy(&(mem->memory[mem->size]), contents, realsize);
+  mem->size += realsize;
+  mem->memory[mem->size] = 0;
+
+  return realsize;
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+  CURL *curl;
+  CURLcode res;
+  struct MemoryStruct chunk;
+  static const char *postthis="Field=1&Field=2&Field=3";
+
+  chunk.memory = malloc(1);  /* will be grown as needed by realloc above */
+  chunk.size = 0;    /* no data at this point */
+
+  curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
+  curl = curl_easy_init();
+  if(curl) {
+
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.org/");
+
+    /* send all data to this function  */
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteMemoryCallback);
+
+    /* we pass our 'chunk' struct to the callback function */
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, 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, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0");
+
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, postthis);
+
+    /* if we don't provide POSTFIELDSIZE, libcurl will strlen() by
+       itself */
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, (long)strlen(postthis));
+
+    /* Perform the request, res will get the return code */
+    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+    /* 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("%s\n",chunk.memory);
+    }
+
+    /* always cleanup */
+    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+
+    if(chunk.memory)
+      free(chunk.memory);
+
+    /* we're done with libcurl, so clean it up */
+    curl_global_cleanup();
+  }
+  return 0;
+}