mojave man page for curlopt_writedata

Query: curlopt_writedata

OS: mojave

Section: 3

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CURLOPT_WRITEDATA(3)					     curl_easy_setopt options					      CURLOPT_WRITEDATA(3)

NAME
CURLOPT_WRITEDATA - custom pointer passed to the write callback
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, void *pointer);
DESCRIPTION
A data pointer to pass to the write callback. If you use the CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION(3) option, this is the pointer you'll get in that call- back's 4th argument. If you don't use a write callback, you must make pointer a 'FILE *' (cast to 'void *') as libcurl will pass this to fwrite(3) when writing data. The internal CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION(3) will write the data to the FILE * given with this option, or to stdout if this option hasn't been set. If you're using libcurl as a win32 DLL, you MUST use the CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION(3) if you set this option or you will experience crashes.
DEFAULT
By default, this is a FILE * to stdout.
PROTOCOLS
Used for all protocols.
EXAMPLE
A common technique is to use the write callback to store the incoming data into a dynamically growing allocated buffer, and then this CUR- LOPT_WRITEDATA(3) is used to point to a struct or the buffer to store data in. Like in the getinmemory example: https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/getinmemory.html
AVAILABILITY
Available in all libcurl versions. This option was formerly known as CURLOPT_FILE, the name CURLOPT_WRITEDATA(3) was introduced in 7.9.7.
RETURN VALUE
This will return CURLE_OK.
SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_READDATA(3), libcurl 7.54.0 February 03, 2016 CURLOPT_WRITEDATA(3)
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