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     22 /* <DESC>
     23  * Make a HTTP POST with data from memory and receive response in memory.
     24  * </DESC>
     25  */
     26 #include <stdio.h>
     27 #include <stdlib.h>
     28 #include <string.h>
     29 #include <curl/curl.h>
     30 
     31 struct MemoryStruct {
     32   char *memory;
     33   size_t size;
     34 };
     35 
     36 static size_t
     37 WriteMemoryCallback(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
     38 {
     39   size_t realsize = size * nmemb;
     40   struct MemoryStruct *mem = (struct MemoryStruct *)userp;
     41 
     42   char *ptr = realloc(mem->memory, mem->size + realsize + 1);
     43   if(!ptr) {
     44     /* out of memory! */
     45     printf("not enough memory (realloc returned NULL)\n");
     46     return 0;
     47   }
     48 
     49   mem->memory = ptr;
     50   memcpy(&(mem->memory[mem->size]), contents, realsize);
     51   mem->size += realsize;
     52   mem->memory[mem->size] = 0;
     53 
     54   return realsize;
     55 }
     56 
     57 int main(void)
     58 {
     59   CURL *curl;
     60   CURLcode res;
     61   struct MemoryStruct chunk;
     62   static const char *postthis = "Field=1&Field=2&Field=3";
     63 
     64   chunk.memory = malloc(1);  /* will be grown as needed by realloc above */
     65   chunk.size = 0;    /* no data at this point */
     66 
     67   curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
     68   curl = curl_easy_init();
     69   if(curl) {
     70     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.example.org/");
     71 
     72     /* send all data to this function  */
     73     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteMemoryCallback);
     74 
     75     /* we pass our 'chunk' struct to the callback function */
     76     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *)&chunk);
     77 
     78     /* some servers don't like requests that are made without a user-agent
     79        field, so we provide one */
     80     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0");
     81 
     82     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, postthis);
     83 
     84     /* if we don't provide POSTFIELDSIZE, libcurl will strlen() by
     85        itself */
     86     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, (long)strlen(postthis));
     87 
     88     /* Perform the request, res will get the return code */
     89     res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
     90     /* Check for errors */
     91     if(res != CURLE_OK) {
     92       fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
     93               curl_easy_strerror(res));
     94     }
     95     else {
     96       /*
     97        * Now, our chunk.memory points to a memory block that is chunk.size
     98        * bytes big and contains the remote file.
     99        *
    100        * Do something nice with it!
    101        */
    102       printf("%s\n",chunk.memory);
    103     }
    104 
    105     /* always cleanup */
    106     curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
    107 
    108     /* we're done with libcurl, so clean it up */
    109     curl_global_cleanup();
    110   }
    111   free(chunk.memory);
    112   return 0;
    113 }
    114