CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD.md (1549B)
1 --- 2 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4 Title: CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD 5 Section: 3 6 Source: libcurl 7 See-also: 8 - CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD (3) 9 - curl_easy_getinfo (3) 10 - curl_easy_setopt (3) 11 Protocol: 12 - All 13 Added-in: 7.6.1 14 --- 15 16 # NAME 17 18 CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD - get content-length of download 19 20 # SYNOPSIS 21 22 ~~~c 23 #include <curl/curl.h> 24 25 CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD, 26 double *content_length); 27 ~~~ 28 29 # DESCRIPTION 30 31 Pass a pointer to a double to receive the content-length of the download. This 32 is the value read from the Content-Length: field. Since 7.19.4, this returns 33 -1 if the size is not known. 34 35 CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T(3) is a newer replacement that returns a more 36 sensible variable type. 37 38 # %PROTOCOLS% 39 40 # EXAMPLE 41 42 ~~~c 43 int main(void) 44 { 45 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); 46 if(curl) { 47 CURLcode res; 48 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com"); 49 50 /* Perform the request */ 51 res = curl_easy_perform(curl); 52 53 if(!res) { 54 /* check the size */ 55 double cl; 56 res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD, &cl); 57 if(!res) { 58 printf("Size: %.0f\n", cl); 59 } 60 } 61 } 62 } 63 ~~~ 64 65 # DEPRECATED 66 67 Deprecated since 7.55.0. 68 69 # %AVAILABILITY% 70 71 # RETURN VALUE 72 73 curl_easy_getinfo(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error. 74 75 CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see 76 libcurl-errors(3).