Hi!
I'm a bit confused about the semantics and dealing with the various CURLM events.
Here is a high-level description of my setup (Windows). I embedded my questions within.
 
    curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL)
  
  curl_multi_setopt(curl_m_handle, CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION, on_socket_callback);
  curl_multi_setopt(curl_m_handle, CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION, on_timer_callback);
  curl_easy_init();
  curl_easy_setopt(curl_e_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *)file);
  curl_easy_setopt(curl_e_handle, CURLOPT_URL, url);  
  curl_multi_add_handle(..;
  curl_multi_perform(..
  
  // event loop stuff
  
  curl_multi_cleanup(..;
 
     ...
  
  socket_callback(
  {
   // Here curl is telling me via CURL_POLL_IN/OUT that it wants me to tell it 
   // when the socket is ready for read/write.
  }
  
  timer_callback(
  {
   // Here curl tells me to give up waiting for socket readiness after Xms
   
   Q1: How does it figure X ?
   Q2: When I start my program I noticed curl raises this event 3 times before
    raising any other events.. Why is that?
  }
  
  my_timer_callback(
  {
   Q3: According to the doc's:
   
   "Your application will then get called with information on how long to wait for socket actions at most
   before doing the timeout action: call the curl_multi_socket_action function with the sockfd argument
   set to CURL_SOCKET_TIMEOUT"
   
   "When the curl_multi_socket_action function runs, it informs the application about updates in the socket
   (file descriptor) status by doing none, one, or multiple calls to the socket_callback"
   
   
   What exactly am I supposed to do in socket_callback for this case ?
   Since I'm only supposed to pass CURL_SOCKET_TIMEOUT and not sockfd, how would I distinguish this case
   (and the socket) from the "register with event loop" case ?
   
   
  }
  
  event_loop_callback(
  {
   Q4: Similar  to Q3 how does curl_multi_socket_action (which invokes socket_callback)
   tell curl that now the socket is ready? I didn't write any specific code in socket_callback()
   for that to happen but it still appears to work..
  }
 }
}
Thanks in advance.

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Received on 2016-01-21