curl-users
Re: can curl output to a string?
From: Eduardo Reis <eduardo_reis_at_compuquali.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:41:22 -0000
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:41:22 -0000
And in C can I put curl's output in a string? Or I need to write it always
to file?
Eduardo
--- Compuquali. SA - GFI Group E-mail: eduardo_reis_at_compuquali.com Telef: +351-229417877 Telem: +351-919556791 "Yes means No and No means Yes. Delete all files [Y]? " ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se> To: "Curl Mailinglist" <curl_at_contactor.se> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 4:11 PM Subject: Re: can curl output to a string? > On 14 Nov 2000, Miguel Mendes wrote: > > > I'm doing some web fetching, something like this: > > > > $url = "http://www.some-site.com/index.html" > > > > $ch = curl_init ($url); > > $fp = fopen ($url, "w"); > > > > curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp); > > > > curl_exec ($ch); > > curl_close ($ch); > > fclose ($fp); > > This is obviously the curl module for PHP4 you're talking about. > > Sterling Hughes of the PHP team is the one who's written that module if I'm > not mistaking. > > I've never even used it. > > > Is there a way to output the fetched page directly to a string, avoiding > > writing to a file? > > The curl module for PHP has a glue layer between PHP and libcurl. It could > indeed be written to collect all contents into a "string". This isn't really > a limitation in curl (even though libcurl's design limits some things). This > is merely a design choice of that module. > > I'm sorry, but this suggestion should probably be sent to the curl module > author. > > -- > Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/Received on 2000-11-14