On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Peter Soxberger wrote:

> I found an example of how to put a file to a server with HTTP PUT. But how
> can I start a HTTP download?

We have more examples: http://curl.haxx.se/lxr/source/docs/examples/

And even a tutorial: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-tutorial.html

> How can I get the file size of the file that I'm downloading, so that I can
> calculate the progress?

You can't be sure to get that info, but for the cases you do
curl_easy_getinfo() can tell.

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