On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Pete Wilson wrote:

> I must act on incoming data as it arrives, but the data are part of a
> continuous, unending stream of HTTP messages.
>
> What is the best way to tell libcurl, during the synchronous read of this
> stream, to give control once in a while to my main program code?
>
> Or else please tell me if the read of the stream needs to be asynchronous.

It's really up to you. libcurl provides several different ways for you to get
a HTTP stream, and reading up on curl_easy_perform() and curl_multi_perform()
should give you an idea of how they work and what their differences are.

It basically depends on if you want a synch or async call and libcurl offers
boths ways.

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