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threaded-ssl.c

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/* <DESC>
 * Show the required mutex callback setups for GnuTLS and OpenSSL when using
 * libcurl multi-threaded.
 * </DESC>
 */
/* A multi-threaded example that uses pthreads and fetches 4 remote files at
 * once over HTTPS.
 *
 * Recent versions of OpenSSL and GnuTLS are thread safe by design, assuming
 * support for the underlying OS threading API is built-in. Older revisions
 * of this example demonstrated locking callbacks for the SSL library, which
 * are no longer necessary. An older revision with callbacks can be found at
 * https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/curl-7_88_1/docs/examples/threaded-ssl.c
 */
 
#define USE_OPENSSL /* or USE_GNUTLS accordingly */
 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>
 
#define NUMT 4
 
/* List of URLs to fetch.*/
static const char * const urls[]= {
  "https://www.example.com/",
  "https://www2.example.com/",
  "https://www3.example.com/",
  "https://www4.example.com/",
};
 
static void *pull_one_url(void *url)
{
  CURL *curl;
 
  curl = curl_easy_init();
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
  /* this example does not verify the server's certificate, which means we
     might be downloading stuff from an impostor */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0L);
  curl_easy_perform(curl); /* ignores error */
  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
 
  return NULL;
}
 
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  pthread_t tid[NUMT];
  int i;
  (void)argc; /* we do not use any arguments in this example */
  (void)argv;
 
  /* Must initialize libcurl before any threads are started */
  curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
 
  for(i = 0; i < NUMT; i++) {
    int error = pthread_create(&tid[i],
                               NULL, /* default attributes please */
                               pull_one_url,
                               (void *)urls[i]);
    if(0 != error)
      fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't run thread number %d, errno %d\n", i, error);
    else
      fprintf(stderr, "Thread %d, gets %s\n", i, urls[i]);
  }
 
  /* now wait for all threads to terminate */
  for(i = 0; i < NUMT; i++) {
    pthread_join(tid[i], NULL);
    fprintf(stderr, "Thread %d terminated\n", i);
  }
 
  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.