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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE (3)

Name

CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE - get size of retrieved headers

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE, long *sizep);

Description

CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE(3)    curl_easy_getinfo options   CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE(3)



NAME
       CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE - get size of retrieved headers

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE, long *sizep);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass  a  pointer to a long to receive the total size of all the headers
       received. Measured in number of bytes.

       The total includes the size of any received headers suppressed by  CUR-
       LOPT_SUPPRESS_CONNECT_HEADERS(3).

PROTOCOLS
       All

EXAMPLE
       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         CURLcode res;
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
         res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
         if(res == CURLE_OK) {
           long size;
           res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE, &size);
           if(!res)
             printf("Header size: %ld bytes\n", size);
         }
         curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Added in 7.4.1

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_REQUEST_SIZE(3),
       CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD(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_HEADER_SIZE(3)