curl_easy_send.md (2898B)
1 --- 2 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4 Title: curl_easy_send 5 Section: 3 6 Source: libcurl 7 See-also: 8 - curl_easy_getinfo (3) 9 - curl_easy_perform (3) 10 - curl_easy_recv (3) 11 - curl_easy_setopt (3) 12 Protocol: 13 - All 14 Added-in: 7.18.2 15 --- 16 17 # NAME 18 19 curl_easy_send - sends raw data over an "easy" connection 20 21 # SYNOPSIS 22 23 ~~~c 24 #include <curl/curl.h> 25 26 CURLcode curl_easy_send(CURL *curl, const void *buffer, 27 size_t buflen, size_t *n); 28 ~~~ 29 30 # DESCRIPTION 31 32 This function sends arbitrary data over the established connection. You may 33 use it together with curl_easy_recv(3) to implement custom protocols 34 using libcurl. This functionality can be particularly useful if you use 35 proxies and/or SSL encryption: libcurl takes care of proxy negotiation and 36 connection setup. 37 38 **buffer** is a pointer to the data of length **buflen** that you want 39 sent. The variable **n** points to receives the number of sent bytes. 40 41 To establish the connection, set CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY(3) option before 42 calling curl_easy_perform(3) or curl_multi_perform(3). Note that 43 curl_easy_send(3) does not work on connections that were created without 44 this option. 45 46 The call returns **CURLE_AGAIN** if it is not possible to send data right now 47 - the socket is used in non-blocking mode internally. When **CURLE_AGAIN** 48 is returned, use your operating system facilities like *select(2)* to wait 49 until the socket is writable. The socket may be obtained using 50 curl_easy_getinfo(3) with CURLINFO_ACTIVESOCKET(3). 51 52 Furthermore if you wait on the socket and it tells you it is writable, 53 curl_easy_send(3) may return **CURLE_AGAIN** if the only data that was sent 54 was for internal SSL processing, and no other data could be sent. 55 56 # %PROTOCOLS% 57 58 # EXAMPLE 59 60 ~~~c 61 int main(void) 62 { 63 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); 64 if(curl) { 65 CURLcode res; 66 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com"); 67 /* Do not do the transfer - only connect to host */ 68 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY, 1L); 69 res = curl_easy_perform(curl); 70 71 if(res == CURLE_OK) { 72 curl_socket_t sockfd; 73 size_t sent; 74 /* Extract the socket from the curl handle - we need it for waiting. */ 75 res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_ACTIVESOCKET, &sockfd); 76 77 /* send data */ 78 res = curl_easy_send(curl, "hello", 5, &sent); 79 } 80 } 81 } 82 ~~~ 83 84 # %AVAILABILITY% 85 86 # RETURN VALUE 87 88 On success, returns **CURLE_OK** and stores the number of bytes actually 89 sent into ***n**. Note that this may be less than the amount you wanted to 90 send. 91 92 On failure, returns the appropriate error code. 93 94 This function may return **CURLE_AGAIN**. In this case, use your operating 95 system facilities to wait until the socket is writable, and retry. 96 97 If there is no socket available to use from the previous transfer, this 98 function returns **CURLE_UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL**.