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curl_new

 SYNOPSIS
  Instantiate a new Curl_Type object

 USAGE
  Curl_Type curl_new(String_Type url)

 DESCRIPTION
  This function instantiates and returns a Curl_Type and
  returns it.  It is a wrapper around the cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) library function
  `curl_easy_init'.  The Curl_Type object is created with
  the CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS option set to 1, and
  CURLOPT_VERBOSE set to 0.

  Upon failure, the function throws a `CurlError' exception.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_setopt, curl_multi_new, curl_perform

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curl_setopt

 SYNOPSIS
  Set an option for a specified Curl_Type object

 USAGE
  curl_setopt (Curl_Type c, Int_Type opt, ...)

 DESCRIPTION
  The `curl_setopt' function is a wrapper around the cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/)
  library function curl_easy_setopt (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html).  For more information
  about the options that this function takes, see
  curl_easy_setopt (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html).  Only the differences between the
  module function and the corresponding API function will be explained
  here.

  The current version of the `curl' module does not support the
  CURLOPT_*DATA options.  Instead, support for these options
  has been integrated into the corresponding callback functions.  For
  example, the CURLOPT_WRITEDATA option has been merged with
  the CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION.  Moreover the prototypes for the
  callbacks have been changed to simplify their use, as described below.
<descrip>
CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION This option requires two parameters: a
  reference to the callback function, and a user-defined object to
  pass to that function.  The callback function will be passed two
  arguments: the specified user-defined object, and a binary string to
  write.  Upon failure, the function must return -1, and any other
  value will indicate success.
CURLOPT_READFUNCTION This option requires two parameters: a
  reference to the callback function, and a user-defined object to
  pass to that function.  The callback function will be passed two
  arguments: the specified user-defined object, and the maximum number
  of bytes to be read by the function.  Upon success, the function
  should return a (binary) string, otherwise it should return NULL to
  indicate failure.
CURLOPT_WRITEHEADER This option requires two parameters: a
  reference to the callback function, and a user-defined object to
  pass to that function.  The callback function will be passed two
  arguments: the specified user-defined object, and a header string
  write.  The function must return -1 upon failure, or any other
  integer to indicate success.
CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION This option requires two parameters: a
  reference to the callback function, and a user-defined object to
  pass to that function.  The callback function will be passed five
  arguments: the specified user-defined object, and four double
  precision floating point values that represent the total number of
  bytes to be downloaded, the total downloaded so far, the total to be
  uploaded, and the total currently uploaded.  This function must
  return 0 to indicate success, or non-zero to indicate failure.
</descrip>

  A number of the options in the cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) API take a linked list of
  strings.  Instead of a linked list, the module requires an array of
  strings for such options, e.g.,

    curl_setopt (c, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
                 ["User-Agent: S-Lang curl module",
                  "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8",
                  "Content-Length: 1234"]);


 EXAMPLE
  The following example illustrates how to write the contents of a
  specified URL to a file, its download progress to stdout, and
  the contents of its header to variable:

    define write_callback (fp, str)
    {
       return fputs (str, fp);
    }
    define progress_callback (fp, dltotal, dlnow, ultotal, ulnow)
    {
       if (-1 == fprintf (fp, "Bytes Received: %d\n", int(dlnow)))
         return -1;
       if (dltotal > 0.0)
         {
            if (-1 == fprintf (fp, "Percent Received: %g\n",
                               dlnow/dltotal * 100.0))
              return -1;
         }
       return 0;
    }
    define header_callback (strp, str)
    {
       @strp += str;
       return 0;
    }
    define download_url (url, file)
    {
       variable fp = fopen (file, "w");
       variable c = curl_new (url);
       curl_setopt (c, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION);
       curl_setopt (c, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, &write_callback, fp);
       curl_setopt (c, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, &progress_callback, stdout);
       variable var = "";
       curl_setopt (c, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, &header_callback, &var);
       curl_perform (c);
       () = fprintf (stdout, "Header: %s\n", var);
    }


 SEE ALSO
  curl_new, curl_perform, curl_multi_new

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curl_global_init

 SYNOPSIS
  Initialize the Curl library

 USAGE
  curl_global_init (flags)

 DESCRIPTION
  This function is a wrapper around the corresponding cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) library
  function.  See its documentation (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_global_init.html) for
  more information.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_global_cleanup

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curl_global_cleanup

 SYNOPSIS
  Finalize the Curl library

 USAGE
  curl_global_cleanup

 DESCRIPTION
  This function is a wrapper around the corresponding cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) library
  function.  See its documentation (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_global_cleanup.html) for
  more information.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_global_init

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curl_perform

 SYNOPSIS
  Transfer a file

 USAGE
  curl_perform

 DESCRIPTION
  This function is a wrapper around the curl_easy_perform (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_perform.html)
  cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) library function.  See its
  documentation (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_perform.html) for more information.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_new, curl_setopt, curl_multi_perform

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curl_get_info

 SYNOPSIS
  Get information about a Curl_Type object

 USAGE
  info = curl_get_info (Curl_Type c, Int_Type type)

 DESCRIPTION
  This function returns information of the requested type from a
  Curl_Type object.   The data returned depends upon the value
  of the `type' argument.  For more information, see see the
  documentation for the cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) library curl_easy_getinfo (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_getinfo.html) function.

 EXAMPLE
  This example shows how to use the `curl_get_info' function to
  obtain the effective URL used for the transfer.

    url = curl_get_info (c, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);


 SEE ALSO
  curl_new, curl_multi_info_read

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curl_close

 SYNOPSIS
  Close a Curl_Type object

 USAGE
  curl_close

 DESCRIPTION
  This function is a wrapper around the curl_easy_cleanup (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_cleanup.html)
  cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) library function.  See its
  documentation (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_perform.html) for more information.

 NOTES
  Normally there is no need to call this function because the module
  automatically frees any memory associated with the Curl_Type
  object when it is no longer referenced.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_new

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curl_easy_strerror

 SYNOPSIS
  Get the string representation for a curl error code

 USAGE
  String_Type curl_easy_strerror (errcode)

 DESCRIPTION
  This function is a wrapper around the curl_easy_strerror (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_strerror.html)
  cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) library function.  See its
  documentation (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_strerr.html) for more information.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_perform, curl_multi_info_read, curl_multi_perform

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curl_strerror

 SYNOPSIS
  Get the string representation for a curl error code

 USAGE
  String_Type curl_strerror (errcode)

 DESCRIPTION
  This function is a wrapper around the curl_easy_strerror (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_strerror.html)
  cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) library function.  See its
  documentation (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_strerr.html) for more information.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_perform, curl_multi_info_read, curl_multi_perform

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curl_multi_new

 SYNOPSIS
  Instantiate a new Curl_Multi_Type object

 USAGE
  Curl_Multi_Type curl_multi_new ()

 DESCRIPTION
  This function is a wrapper around the curl_multi_init (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_multi_init.html)
  cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) library function.  It creates a new instance of a
  Curl_Multi_Type object and returns it.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_multi_perform, curl_setopt

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curl_multi_perform

 SYNOPSIS
  Process a Curl_Multi_Type object

 USAGE
  Int_Type curl_multi_perform (Curl_Multi_Type m [,Double_Type dt])

 DESCRIPTION
  This function is a wrapper around the curl_multi_perform (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_multi_perform.html)
  cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) library function.  However, the `curl' module function
  takes an additional argument (`dt') that causes the function to
  wait up to that many seconds for one of the underlying
  Curl_Type objects to become ready for reading or writing.
  The function returns the number of Curl_Type.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_multi_new, curl_multi_length, curl_multi_add_handle

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curl_multi_remove_handle

 SYNOPSIS
  Remove a Curl_Type object from a Curl_Multi_Type

 USAGE
  curl_multi_remove_handle (Curl_Multi_Type m, Curl_Type c)

 DESCRIPTION
  This function removes the specified Curl_Type object from
  the Curl_Multi_Type object.  For more information, see the
  documentation (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_multi_remove_handle.html) for the
  corresponding cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) library function.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_multi_add_handle, curl_multi_new, curl_multi_perform

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curl_multi_add_handle

 SYNOPSIS
  Add a Curl_Type object to a Curl_Multi_Type

 USAGE
  curl_multi_add_handle

 DESCRIPTION
  This function adds the specified Curl_Type object to
  the Curl_Multi_Type object.  For more information, see the
  documentation (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_multi_remove_handle.html) for the
  corresponding cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) library function.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_multi_remove_handle, curl_multi_new, curl_multi_perform

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curl_multi_close

 SYNOPSIS
  Close a Curl_Multi_Type object

 USAGE
  curl_multi_close (Curl_Multi_Type m)

 DESCRIPTION
  This function is a wrapper around the curl_multi_cleanup (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_multi_cleanup.html)
  cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) library function.   Any Curl_Multi_Type objects
  associated with the specified Curl_Multi_Type object will be
  removed from it.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_multi_new, curl_multi_remove_handle, curl_multi_info_read

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curl_multi_info_read

 SYNOPSIS
  Get information about a Curl_Multi_Type transfer

 USAGE
  Curl_Type curl_multi_info_read (Curl_Multi_Type m [,Ref_Type info])

 DESCRIPTION
  This function retrieves information from the specified
  Curl_Multi_Type object about an individual completed
  transfer by one of its associated Curl_Type objects.  If all
  of the associated Curl_Type objects are still being
  processed, the function will return NULL.  Otherwise it returns the
  completed Curl_Type object.  If an optional Ref_Type
  parameter is passed to the function, then upon return the
  the associated variable be set to an integer representing the
  completion status of the Curl_Type object.  If the
  completion status is 0, then the transfer was successful, otherwise
  the individual transfer failed and the completion status gives the
  error code associated with the transfer.  More infomation about the
  transfer may be obtained by calling the `curl_get_info' function.

 EXAMPLE
  The `curl_multi_info_read' function should be called after a
  call to `curl_multi_perform' has indicated that a transfer has
  taken place.  The following example repeatedly calls
  `curl_multi_info_read' until it returns NULL.  Each time
  through the loop, the completed Curl_Type object is removed
  from the Curl_Multi_Type object.

        while (c = curl_multi_info_read (m, &status), c!=NULL)
          {
             curl_multi_remove_handle (m, c);
             url = curl_get_url (c);
             if (status == 0)
               vmessage ("Retrieved %s", url);
             else
               vmessage ("Unable to retrieve %s: Reason %s",
                          url, curl_strerr (status));
          }


 SEE ALSO
  curl_multi_perform, curl_multi_remove_handle, curl_get_info

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curl_get_url

 SYNOPSIS
  Get the URL associated with a Curl_Type object

 USAGE
  String_Type curl_get_url (Curl_Type c)

 DESCRIPTION
  This function returns the name of the URL that was used to
  instantiate the specified Curl_Type object.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_new, curl_get_info

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curl_multi_length

 SYNOPSIS
  Get the number of Curl_Type objects in a Curl_Multi_Type

 USAGE
  Int_Type curl_multi_length (Curl_Multi_Type m)

 DESCRIPTION
  This function returns the number of Curl_Type objects
  contained in the specified Curl_Multi_Type object.

 SEE ALSO
  curl_multi_remove_handle, curl_multi_add_handle

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