On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Prasad J Pandit wrote:

>> You seem to have missed the tutorial:
>
> Ummn..no I didn't. And to be honest, it is not very well written,

Then I'm looking forward to see your improvements.

> I must say. For ex. the space where it explains about CURLOPT_WRITEDATA as
> bellow, nowhere could I find, what this `internal_struct' is? There are many
> such quirks.
>
> curl_easy_setopt(easyhandle, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &internal_struct);

Yes it actually assumes that you have done some amount of programming before,
it's not an entry-level document. The pointer you set with CURLOPT_WRITEDATA
is passed verbatim to the write callback. You can pass a pointer to anything
you like.

> Well, I did have a look at this link below, and again couldn't find
> write_data example.
>
> http://curl.haxx.se/lxr/source/docs/examples/

getinmemory.c perhaps?

> Also the Post-callback.c explains about how to read_data from external
> source before doing post.
>
> http://curl.haxx.se/lxr/source/docs/examples/post-callback.c

That shows how to use the read callback when doing a POST, yes.

> Anyways, IMHO I think, it's still far from being called sane.

Can you please elaborate on how that example isn't sane?

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