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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T (3)

Name

CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T - length of download

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T,
curl_off_t *content_length);

Description

curl_easy_getinfo options                CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T(3)



NAME
       CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T - get content-length of download

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T,
                                  curl_off_t *content_length);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass  a  pointer  to  a curl_off_t to receive the content-length of the
       download. This is the value read from the Content-Length: field. Stores
       -1 if the size is not known.

PROTOCOLS
       HTTP(S)

EXAMPLE
       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");

         /* Perform the request */
         res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

         if(!res) {
           /* check the size */
           curl_off_t cl;
           res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T, &cl);
           if(!res) {
             printf("Download size: %" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T "\n", cl);
           }
         }
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Added in 7.55.0

RETURN VALUE
       Returns  CURLE_OK  if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION
       if not.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | web/curl         |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+

SEE ALSO
       curl_easy_getinfo(3),        curl_easy_setopt(3),         CURLINFO_CON-
       TENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD_T(3),



NOTES
       Source  code  for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source       was       downloaded      from       https://curl.se/down-
       load/curl-7.83.1.tar.bz2.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://curl.haxx.se/.



libcurl 7.83.1                 November 26, 2021
                                         CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T(3)