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headerapi.c

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/* <DESC>
 * Extract headers post transfer with the header API
 * </DESC>
 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>
 
static size_t write_cb(char *data, size_t n, size_t l, void *userp)
{
  /* take care of the data here, ignored in this example */
  (void)data;
  (void)userp;
  return n*l;
}
 
int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;
 
  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode res;
    struct curl_header *header;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
    /* example.com is redirected, so we tell libcurl to follow redirection */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
 
    /* this example just ignores the content */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_cb);
 
    /* Perform the request, res gets 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));
 
    if(CURLHE_OK == curl_easy_header(curl, "Content-Type", 0, CURLH_HEADER,
                                     -1, &header))
      printf("Got content-type: %s\n", header->value);
 
    printf("All server headers:\n");
    {
      struct curl_header *h;
      struct curl_header *prev = NULL;
      do {
        h = curl_easy_nextheader(curl, CURLH_HEADER, -1, prev);
        if(h)
          printf(" %s: %s (%u)\n", h->name, h->value, (int)h->amount);
        prev = h;
      } while(h);
 
    }
    /* always cleanup */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
  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.