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Re: CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION function getting called multiple time even the complete http response body is only 2155 bytes
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:50:01 +0530
On 21-Jun-15 12:35 AM, (( \/\/|||"'""/'")) ((\"""" )) (( ))\\\"\\"\ wrote:
> Libcurl is just a wrapper around OpenSSL, and forgive me if I'm wrong,
> but it looks like the only original functionality libcurl has is to
> verify certificates (which doesn't work that well either... try
> verifying yahoo's cert...).
>
> I had this same problem using libcurl and their awkward, over
> complicated callback scheme.
>>> Yes. Its very complicated scheme they have implemented.
>
> OpenSSL has sockets more or less identical to send()/recv() API, so
> you can read data directly from a socket, and no need to deal with
> header callback, body callback, write callback, blah blah etc.
>
> IMHO - while correct to libcurl's functions Ray Satiro's answer
> highlights how incredibly over complicated such simple tasks are
> w/libcurl.
>
> This code has faults but is enough to get you started. You can get
> size, etc straight from the socket.
>
> http://savetheions.com/2010/01/16/quickly-using-openssl-in-c/
>
> If you want to roll code yourself to verify certs, you can find a lot
> of info/links to various code samples on OpenSSL's site.
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se
> <mailto:daniel_at_haxx.se>> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Ganesh Nikam wrote:
>
> 1. What do you mean by "as much as possible" here ? how
> libcurl decides it ?
>
>
> It depends completley on what it receives. For every recv() call
> (and some other details Jay mentioned), libcurl will call the
> callback to deliver data.
>
> 2. In my case, my complete http response boby is of 2155
> bytes. For such small response also libcurl breaks the message
> in two callbacks. First with 1295 byte and other is 860 byte.
> What could be the reasons for
> calling callback two times for such small message size?
>
>
> Most probably libcurl received the data in two different recv() calls.
>
> 3. I want to get the complete http response in single
> write_callbck function.
>
>
> libcurl doesn't work like that.
>
> is there is any way to get the complete size of the http
> response ?
>
>
> Sure, for example like this:
> http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/getinmemory.html
>
> My http server sends response in chunked encoding. is there
> a way to get the chunked response size ?
>
>
> You can switch off transfer-encoding in libcurl, and then you get
> all the chunked data to deal with - but then you also have to do
> the entire chunked decoding yourself.
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se <http://daniel.haxx.se>
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