curl-library
Re: HEAD requests
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:40:55 +0100 (CET)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:40:55 +0100 (CET)
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Mohit Kumar wrote:
> is there any option that libcurl provides to get certain data say as
> Last-modified (HTTP) from the resource without dowloading the entire
> resource?? I am new to libcurl and i am facing such a problem.
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTNOBODY
> Moreover, is there going to be a new version of libcurl soon (say in next 6
> months) which shall also support Asynchronous tranfers just like WinInet
> API???
libcurl already supports non-blocking requests with the multi interface. I
have no idea what the WinInet API is like, but I figure you should be able to
do just about the same things using this:
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-multi.html
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