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Re: getting html to buffer?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:04:16 +0200 (MET DST)

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Admir Efendic wrote:

[CC'ing this reply to the libcurl list which seems a more appropriate list
for this discussion.]

> I'm trying to get an html-file to char* buffer with curl. I am using
> multiple threads, each thread have their own instance of curl and are
> fetching different html pages. Is there a straightforward way to do this,
> or do I have to write html to a file, and then open the file (or mmap
> it)? Specifying custom write function to curl doesn't really help,
> because I am forced to use global buffer (visible to both thread_function
> & write_function ) and that's a nono with threads ;-).

I don't understand your situation. Why are you forced to use a global buffer?
Why can't each thread simply download the file into its own thread-specific
buffer?

-- 
    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
Received on 2001-10-01