On 05-Aug-2010, at 4:52 PM, Hrishikesh Murukkathampoondi wrote:

> I read through the libcurl-tutorial and I am able to set up a handle, options, and call curl_easy_perform() to download a file. But I do not understand how I can use curl_easy_pause() to pause the download.
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> In my application I spawn a separate thread that uses lib-curl to download this file so I initially thought I can call easy_pause from the main thread. But the documentation at http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_pause.html says that the function should not be called from another thread.
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> The call to curl_easy_perform() will not return till the download is complete so I cannot call curl_easy_pause() from the same thread.
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> I am missing something/ Could someone tell me the correct way to use curl_easy_pause()?
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> Thank you
> Hrishi

I think http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.curl.library/17141/match=curl%5feasy%5fpause answers my question.

curl_easy_pause() should be called from one of the callback functions. I guess the CURL handle should be packaged as an argument into the callback function somehow.

Hrishi
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