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| .TH libcurl 3 "12 Aug 2003" "libcurl 7.10.7" "libcurl easy interface" |
| .SH NAME |
| libcurl-easy \- easy interface overview |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| When using libcurl's "easy" interface you init your session and get a handle |
| (often referred to as an "easy handle" in various docs and sources), which you |
| use as input to the easy interface functions you use. Use |
| \fIcurl_easy_init()\fP to get the handle. |
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| You continue by setting all the options you want in the upcoming transfer, the |
| most important among them is the URL itself (you can't transfer anything |
| without a specified URL as you may have figured out yourself). You might want |
| to set some callbacks as well that will be called from the library when data |
| is available etc. \fIcurl_easy_setopt()\fP is used for all this. |
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| When all is setup, you tell libcurl to perform the transfer using |
| \fIcurl_easy_perform()\fP. It will then do the entire operation and won't |
| return until it is done (successfully or not). |
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| After the transfer has been made, you can set new options and make another |
| transfer, or if you're done, cleanup the session by calling |
| \fIcurl_easy_cleanup()\fP. If you want persistant connections, you don't |
| cleanup immediately, but instead run ahead and perform other transfers using |
| the same easy handle. |
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