threaded.c
/*************************************************************************** * _ _ ____ _ * Project ___| | | | _ \| | * / __| | | | |_) | | * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| * * Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. * * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms * are also available at https://curl.se/docs/copyright.html. * * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file. * * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. * * SPDX-License-Identifier: curl * ***************************************************************************/ /* <DESC> * A multi-threaded program using pthreads to fetch several files at once * </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 */ /* Requires: HAVE_THREADS_POSIX */ /* Also requires TLS support to run */ #include <stdio.h> #include <pthread.h> #include <curl/curl.h> #define NUMT 4 /* List of URLs to fetch. */ static const char * const urls[NUMT] = { "https://curl.se/", "ftp://example.com/", "https://example.net/", "www.example" }; struct targ { const char *url; }; static void *pull_one_url(void *p) { CURL *curl; curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { struct targ *targ = p; curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, targ->url); (void)curl_easy_perform(curl); /* ignores error */ curl_easy_cleanup(curl); } return NULL; } /* int pthread_create(pthread_t *new_thread_ID, const pthread_attr_t *attr, void * (*start_func)(void *), void *arg); */ int main(void) { CURLcode result; pthread_t tid[NUMT]; struct targ targs[NUMT]; int i; /* Must initialize libcurl before any threads are started */ result = curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL); if(result != CURLE_OK) return (int)result; for(i = 0; i < NUMT; i++) { int error; targs[i].url = urls[i]; error = pthread_create(&tid[i], NULL, /* default attributes please */ pull_one_url, (void *)&targs[i]); if(error) fprintf(stderr, "Could not 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); } curl_global_cleanup(); return 0; }
Notice
This source code example is simplified and may ignore return
codes and error checks. We do this to highlight the libcurl function calls and
related options and reduce unrelated code.
A real-world application does of course properly check every return value and exit correctly at the first serious error.