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On Sun, July 14, 2013 2:11 pm, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, gfa_at_trainzland.com wrote:
>
>
>> *| Can you be more specific? What "some examples" are you referring to?
>> **
>> *
>> http://www.paehl.com/open_source/?CURL_7.30.0
>> ... Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax,
>> supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP.
>> Curl
>> supports ... MANUAL example:
>> Get a file from an SSH server using SFTP:
>> curl.exe -u username sftp://shell.example.com/etc/issue
>
> That's an example showing how to use the curl command line tool. I fail
> to see how that is at all relevant to how you'd use libcurl in a program.
>
> (and I believe the actual quote says "curl", not "curl.exe" as it comes
> from the docs/MANUAL file: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manual.html)
>
>> *| **You can use libcurl but you can't use some specific parts of the
>> API?*
>>
>>
>> Yes, that it.
>>
>
> Then you need to fix your glue layer, the binding.
>
>
> The particular libcurl bindings for various languages are usually best
> done and maintained by people who are fans and users of the specific
> environments for which they are made. I don't know anything about VB or
> how to make a binding for it.
>
>> 1) How will I know if some of the functions requires values
>> by-reference or by-value ?
>
> You read the docs. And also, the options are within specific ranges when
> they accept certain types of arguments, defined in include/curl/curl.h
>
>> 2) Enum: Public Const CURLOPT_READFUNCTION as int = ??
>>
>
> See include/curl/curl.h. It is an enum created with a macro within the
> header file:
>
>
> CINIT(READFUNCTION, FUNCTIONPOINT, 12),
>
>
> Which thus equals 20000 + 12 = 20012.
>
>
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