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Re: libcurl and 'streamed' transfers

From: Apurva Mehta <apurva_at_mathmeth.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:20:33 -0800

Thanks for the response. Thats the confirmation I wanted so as to
avoid setting off on a wild goose chase :-)

Regards,
Apurva

On Nov 11, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Apurva Mehta wrote:
>
>> All of this would mean that I could manage a transfer of arbitrary
>> size without writing to disk and keep the memory overhead tight as
>> well. Is it possible to achieve this behavior using libcurl and
>> curl_multi ?
>
> Sounds entirely feasable and not too hard to do with libcurl's multi
> interface.
>
> You'll only need to pause the download when your memory pool is
> filled up, and you'll want to pause the upload if you run out of
> memory buffer. libcurl supports these things already.
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2008-11-12