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websocket-cb.c

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/* <DESC>
 * WebSocket download-only using write callback
 * </DESC>
 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>
 
static size_t writecb(char *b, size_t size, size_t nitems, void *p)
{
  CURL *easy = p;
  size_t i;
  const struct curl_ws_frame *frame = curl_ws_meta(easy);
  fprintf(stderr, "Type: %s\n", frame->flags & CURLWS_BINARY ?
          "binary" : "text");
  fprintf(stderr, "Bytes: %u", (unsigned int)(nitems * size));
  for(i = 0; i < nitems; i++)
    fprintf(stderr, "%02x ", (unsigned char)b[i]);
  return nitems;
}
 
int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;
  CURLcode res;
 
  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "wss://example.com");
 
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, writecb);
    /* pass the easy handle to the callback */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, curl);
 
    /* Perform the request, res gets the return code */
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    /* Check for errors */
    if(res != CURLE_OK)
      fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
              curl_easy_strerror(res));
 
    /* always cleanup */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
  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.