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Re: Can i access response of HTTP POST other than callback mechanism?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:30:24 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Satish Mittal wrote:

> In the same way, can i access the entire response ONLY through the
> CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION callback?

No.

> My requirement is to write the POST response in a buffer in memory( whose
> maximum size may be fixed also, if user gives an input).

Then make your callback that way. For example like the getinmemory.c example
works: http://curl.haxx.se/lxr/source/docs/examples/getinmemory.c

> Is there a libcurl API available, which can fill the response in my buffer
> in one shot, or which gives me the pointer to response data which i can then
> copy in my own buffer.

The write callback gives you the response data, so that you can copy it!

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Received on 2005-08-29