lib514.c   [plain text]

#include "test.h"

int test(char *URL)
{
  CURL *curl;
  CURLcode res=CURLE_OK;

  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    /* First set the URL that is about to receive our POST. */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, URL);

    /* Based on a bug report by Niels van Tongeren on June 29, 2004:

    A weird situation occurs when request 1 is a POST request and the request
    2 is a HEAD request. For the POST request we set the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE and CURLOPT_POST options. For the HEAD request we
    set the CURLOPT_NOBODY option to '1'.

    */

    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "moo");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, 3);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

    /* this is where transfer 1 would take place, but skip that and change
       options right away instead */

    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);

    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); /* show verbose for debug */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); /* include header */

    /* Now, we should be making a fine HEAD request */

    /* Perform the request 2, res will get the return code */
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

    /* always cleanup */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
  return (int)res;
}