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CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION(3)				     curl_easy_setopt options				       CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION(3)

NAME
CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION - callback to progress meter function SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h> int progress_callback(void *clientp, double dltotal, double dlnow, double ultotal, double ulnow); CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, progress_callback); DESCRIPTION
Pass a pointer to your callback function, which should match the prototype shown above. We encourage users to use the newer CURLOPT_XFERINFOFUNCTION(3) instead, if you can. This function gets called by libcurl instead of its internal equivalent with a frequent interval. While data is being transferred it will be called very frequently, and during slow periods like when nothing is being transferred it can slow down to about one call per second. clientp is the pointer set with CURLOPT_PROGRESSDATA(3), it is not used by libcurl but is only passed along from the application to the callback. The callback gets told how much data libcurl will transfer and has transferred, in number of bytes. dltotal is the total number of bytes libcurl expects to download in this transfer. dlnow is the number of bytes downloaded so far. ultotal is the total number of bytes libcurl expects to upload in this transfer. ulnow is the number of bytes uploaded so far. Unknown/unused argument values passed to the callback will be set to zero (like if you only download data, the upload size will remain 0). Many times the callback will be called one or more times first, before it knows the data sizes so a program must be made to handle that. Returning a non-zero value from this callback will cause libcurl to abort the transfer and return CURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK. If you transfer data with the multi interface, this function will not be called during periods of idleness unless you call the appropriate libcurl function that performs transfers. CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS(3) must be set to 0 to make this function actually get called. DEFAULT
By default, libcurl has an internal progress meter. That's rarely wanted by users. PROTOCOLS
All EXAMPLE
https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/progressfunc.html AVAILABILITY
Always RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK. SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_VERBOSE(3), CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS(3), libcurl 7.54.0 February 03, 2016 CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION(3)

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CURLOPT_READFUNCTION(3) 				     curl_easy_setopt options					   CURLOPT_READFUNCTION(3)

NAME
CURLOPT_READFUNCTION - read callback for data uploads SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h> size_t read_callback(char *buffer, size_t size, size_t nitems, void *instream); CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, read_callback); DESCRIPTION
Pass a pointer to your callback function, as the prototype shows above. This callback function gets called by libcurl as soon as it needs to read data in order to send it to the peer - like if you ask it to upload or post data to the server. The data area pointed at by the pointer buffer should be filled up with at most size multiplied with nmemb number of bytes by your function. Your function must then return the actual number of bytes that it stored in that memory area. Returning 0 will signal end-of-file to the library and cause it to stop the current transfer. If you stop the current transfer by returning 0 "pre-maturely" (i.e before the server expected it, like when you've said you will upload N bytes and you upload less than N bytes), you may experience that the server "hangs" waiting for the rest of the data that won't come. The read callback may return CURL_READFUNC_ABORT to stop the current operation immediately, resulting in a CURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK error code from the transfer. The callback can return CURL_READFUNC_PAUSE to cause reading from this connection to pause. See curl_easy_pause(3) for further details. Bugs: when doing TFTP uploads, you must return the exact amount of data that the callback wants, or it will be considered the final packet by the server end and the transfer will end there. If you set this callback pointer to NULL, or don't set it at all, the default internal read function will be used. It is doing an fread() on the FILE * userdata set with CURLOPT_READDATA(3). DEFAULT
The default internal read callback is fread(). PROTOCOLS
This is used for all protocols when doing uploads. EXAMPLE
Here's an example setting a read callback for reading that to upload to an FTP site: https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/ftpupload.html AVAILABILITY
CURL_READFUNC_PAUSE return code was added in 7.18.0 and CURL_READFUNC_ABORT was added in 7.12.1. RETURN VALUE
This will return CURLE_OK. SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_READDATA(3), CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3), CURLOPT_POST(3), libcurl 7.54.0 February 03, 2016 CURLOPT_READFUNCTION(3)
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