cWikiBot/http.c
2020-12-26 20:14:24 +01:00

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1.4 KiB
C

#include "http.h"
#include <string.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int curl_setup = 0;
char* request(char *url)
{
// initialize curl on the first call of this function
if(curl_setup == 0)
{
curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT);
curl_setup=1;
}
struct httpResponse_t httpResponse;
httpResponse.response = malloc(1);
httpResponse.size = 0;
CURL *httpHandler = curl_easy_init();
CURLcode return_code;
if(httpHandler) {
curl_easy_setopt(httpHandler,CURLOPT_URL, url);
curl_easy_setopt(httpHandler,CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, httpResponseCallback);
curl_easy_setopt(httpHandler,CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *)&httpResponse);
return_code = curl_easy_perform(httpHandler);
}
else
{
fprintf(stderr, "CURL Error");
return NULL;
}
if(return_code != CURLE_OK)
{
fprintf(stderr, "HTTP Error: %s",curl_easy_strerror(return_code));
return NULL;
}
return httpResponse.response;
}
size_t httpResponseCallback(char *data, size_t wordlength, size_t bytecount, void *out)
{
// wordlength should be always 1, but this appears to be more secure.
size_t size = wordlength * bytecount;
struct httpResponse_t *mem = (struct httpResponse_t *) out;
char *newData = realloc(mem->response, mem->size + size +1);
if(newData == NULL)
return 0;
mem->response = newData;
memcpy(&(mem->response[mem->size]), data, size);
mem->size += size;
// Null-terminate the byte chunk, to effectively have a C-String.
mem->response[mem-> size] = 0;
return size;
}