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chkspeed.c

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/* <DESC>
 * Show transfer timing info after download completes.
 * </DESC>
 */
/* 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.
 * After successful download we use curl_easy_getinfo() calls to get the
 * amount of downloaded bytes, the time used for the whole download, and
 * the average download speed.
 * On Linux you can create the download test files with:
 * dd if=/dev/urandom of=file_1M.bin bs=1M count=1
 *
 */
 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
 
#include <curl/curl.h>
 
#define URL_BASE "http://speedtest.your.domain/"
#define URL_1M   URL_BASE "file_1M.bin"
#define URL_2M   URL_BASE "file_2M.bin"
#define URL_5M   URL_BASE "file_5M.bin"
#define URL_10M  URL_BASE "file_10M.bin"
#define URL_20M  URL_BASE "file_20M.bin"
#define URL_50M  URL_BASE "file_50M.bin"
#define URL_100M URL_BASE "file_100M.bin"
 
#define CHKSPEED_VERSION "1.0"
 
static size_t WriteCallback(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *data)
{
  /* we are not interested in the downloaded bytes itself,
     so we only return the size we would have saved ... */
  (void)ptr;  /* unused */
  (void)data; /* unused */
  return (size_t)(size * nmemb);
}
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  CURL *curl_handle;
  CURLcode res;
  int prtall = 0, prtsep = 0, prttime = 0;
  const char *url = URL_1M;
  char *appname = argv[0];
 
  if(argc > 1) {
    /* parse input parameters */
    for(argc--, argv++; *argv; argc--, argv++) {
      if(argv[0][0] == '-') {
        switch(argv[0][1]) {
        case 'h':
        case 'H':
          fprintf(stderr,
                  "\rUsage: %s [-m=1|2|5|10|20|50|100] [-t] [-x] [url]\n",
                  appname);
          exit(1);
        case 'v':
        case 'V':
          fprintf(stderr, "\r%s %s - %s\n",
                  appname, CHKSPEED_VERSION, curl_version());
          exit(1);
        case 'a':
        case 'A':
          prtall = 1;
          break;
        case 'x':
        case 'X':
          prtsep = 1;
          break;
        case 't':
        case 'T':
          prttime = 1;
          break;
        case 'm':
        case 'M':
          if(argv[0][2] == '=') {
            long m = strtol((*argv) + 3, NULL, 10);
            switch(m) {
            case 1:
              url = URL_1M;
              break;
            case 2:
              url = URL_2M;
              break;
            case 5:
              url = URL_5M;
              break;
            case 10:
              url = URL_10M;
              break;
            case 20:
              url = URL_20M;
              break;
            case 50:
              url = URL_50M;
              break;
            case 100:
              url = URL_100M;
              break;
            default:
              fprintf(stderr, "\r%s: invalid parameter %s\n",
                      appname, *argv + 3);
              return 1;
            }
            break;
          }
          fprintf(stderr, "\r%s: invalid or unknown option %s\n",
                  appname, *argv);
          return 1;
        default:
          fprintf(stderr, "\r%s: invalid or unknown option %s\n",
                  appname, *argv);
          return 1;
        }
      }
      else {
        url = *argv;
      }
    }
  }
 
  /* print separator line */
  if(prtsep) {
    printf("-------------------------------------------------\n");
  }
  /* print localtime */
  if(prttime) {
    time_t t = time(NULL);
    printf("Localtime: %s", ctime(&t));
  }
 
  /* init libcurl */
  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, url);
 
  /* send all data to this function  */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteCallback);
 
  /* 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-speedchecker/" CHKSPEED_VERSION);
 
  /* get it! */
  res = curl_easy_perform(curl_handle);
 
  if(CURLE_OK == res) {
    curl_off_t val;
 
    /* check for bytes downloaded */
    res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl_handle, CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD_T, &val);
    if((CURLE_OK == res) && (val>0))
      printf("Data downloaded: %lu bytes.\n", (unsigned long)val);
 
    /* check for total download time */
    res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl_handle, CURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME_T, &val);
    if((CURLE_OK == res) && (val>0))
      printf("Total download time: %lu.%06lu sec.\n",
             (unsigned long)(val / 1000000), (unsigned long)(val % 1000000));
 
    /* check for average download speed */
    res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl_handle, CURLINFO_SPEED_DOWNLOAD_T, &val);
    if((CURLE_OK == res) && (val>0))
      printf("Average download speed: %lu kbyte/sec.\n",
             (unsigned long)(val / 1024));
 
    if(prtall) {
      /* check for name resolution time */
      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl_handle, CURLINFO_NAMELOOKUP_TIME_T, &val);
      if((CURLE_OK == res) && (val>0))
        printf("Name lookup time: %lu.%06lu sec.\n",
               (unsigned long)(val / 1000000), (unsigned long)(val % 1000000));
 
      /* check for connect time */
      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl_handle, CURLINFO_CONNECT_TIME_T, &val);
      if((CURLE_OK == res) && (val>0))
        printf("Connect time: %lu.%06lu sec.\n",
               (unsigned long)(val / 1000000), (unsigned long)(val % 1000000));
    }
  }
  else {
    fprintf(stderr, "Error while fetching '%s' : %s\n",
            url, curl_easy_strerror(res));
  }
 
  /* cleanup curl stuff */
  curl_easy_cleanup(curl_handle);
 
  /* we are done with libcurl, so clean it up */
  curl_global_cleanup();
 
  return 0;
}

Notice

This source code example is simplified and ignores return codes and error checks to a large extent. We do this to highlight the libcurl function calls and related options and reduce unrelated code.

A real-world application will of course properly check every return value and exit correctly at the first serious error.