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Re: Socket read and write functions

From: Oscar Koeroo <okoeroo_at_nikhef.nl>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:59:59 +0100

On 21-11-12 21:16, Colin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> needing a library to perform HTTP requests I am looking at libcurl,
> and have stumbled over something that seems strange: There are
> "curlopts" CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION etc. to set the functions to
> open, close and manipulate the socket, however there are no
> equivalents for read and write. Are there any specific reasons to not
> include them and/or could they be easily added?
>
> Thanks, Colin

Just to be sure, are you perhaps looking for the callback function to set
data that libcurl then need to transfer or read from the servers' reply?

Here are some examples which might give you some hints:
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/example.html

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