1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 2 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 3<html><head> 4<title>libcurl man page</title> 5<meta name="generator" content="roffit"> 6<STYLE type="text/css"> 7P.level0 { 8 padding-left: 2em; 9} 10 11P.level1 { 12 padding-left: 4em; 13} 14 15P.level2 { 16 padding-left: 6em; 17} 18 19span.emphasis { 20 font-style: italic; 21} 22 23span.bold { 24 font-weight: bold; 25} 26 27span.manpage { 28 font-weight: bold; 29} 30 31h2.nroffsh { 32 background-color: #e0e0e0; 33} 34 35span.nroffip { 36 font-weight: bold; 37 font-size: 120%; 38 font-family: monospace; 39} 40 41p.roffit { 42 text-align: center; 43 font-size: 80%; 44} 45</STYLE> 46</head><body> 47 48<p class="level0"><a name="NAME"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">NAME</h2> 49<p class="level0">libcurl-easy - easy interface overview <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DESCRIPTION</h2> 50<p class="level0">When using libcurl's "easy" interface you init your session and get a handle (often referred to as an "easy handle"), which you use as input to the easy interface functions you use. Use <a class="emphasis" href="./curl_easy_init.html">curl_easy_init(3)</a> to get the handle. 51<p class="level0">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. <a class="emphasis" href="./curl_easy_setopt.html">curl_easy_setopt(3)</a> is used for all this. 52<p class="level0">When all is setup, you tell libcurl to perform the transfer using <a class="emphasis" href="./curl_easy_perform.html">curl_easy_perform(3)</a>. It will then do the entire operation and won't return until it is done (successfully or not). 53<p class="level0">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 <a class="emphasis" href="./curl_easy_cleanup.html">curl_easy_cleanup(3)</a>. If you want persistent connections, you don't cleanup immediately, but instead run ahead and perform other transfers using the same easy handle. 54<p class="level0"><p class="roffit"> 55 This HTML page was made with <a href="http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/roffit/">roffit</a>. 56</body></html> 57