{{fbdoc item="title" value="curl"}}----
Free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library supporting almost every protocol.

Website: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
Platforms supported: ""Win32"", Linux, DOS
Headers to include: curl.bi
Header version: 7.44.0
Examples: in examples/network/curl/

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{{fbdoc item="filename" value="examples/manual/libraries/curl.bas"}}%%(freebasic)
'' Curl HTTP Get example

#include once "curl.bi"
#include once "crt/string.bi"

'' this callback will be called when any data is received
private function write_callback cdecl _
	( _
		byval buffer as byte ptr, _
		byval size as integer, _
		byval nitems as integer, _
		byval outstream as any ptr _
	) as integer

	static as zstring ptr zstr = 0
	static as integer maxbytes = 0

	dim as integer bytes = size * nitems

	'' current zstring buffer too small?
	if( maxbytes < bytes ) then
		zstr = reallocate( zstr, bytes + 1 )
		maxbytes = bytes
	end if

	'' "buffer" is not null-terminated, so we must dup it and add the null-term
	memcpy( zstr, buffer, bytes )
	zstr[bytes] = 0

	'' just print it..
	print *zstr

	return bytes
end function

	'' init
	dim as CURL ptr curl = curl_easy_init( )
	if( curl = 0 ) then
		end 1
	end if

	'' set url and callback
	curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_URL, "freebasic.net" )
	curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, @write_callback )

	'' execute..
	curl_easy_perform( curl )

	'' shutdown
	curl_easy_cleanup( curl )
%%

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