CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE

Section: curl_easy_getinfo options (3)
Updated: November 04, 2020
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NAME

CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE - get size of sent request

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

Pass a pointer to a long to receive the total size of the issued requests. This is so far only for HTTP requests. Note that this may be more than one request if CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION(3) is enabled.

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 req;
    res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE, &req);
    if(!res)
      printf("Request size: %ld bytes\n", req);
  }
  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.