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libcurl block until response finishes?

How do you block until the request response finished in libcurl? I need to block because CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION asynchronously writes to the C-String; so I need to be sure that I can get the full output from a request before I act on the data.

Solution

  • I fixed this by making the callback function return return nmemb*size;

    See here for more info: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2002-12/0065.html

    char *array;
int arraySize = 0;

size_t storeContent(char *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userdata) {
  int thisSize = nmemb * size;
  arraySize += thisSize;

  array = realloc(array, arraySize + thisSize);
  strcat(array, ptr);

  return nmemb * size;
}