CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T(3)

CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T3

Get content-length of download

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T,
                           curl_off_t *content_length);

Overview

Pass a pointer to a curl_off_t to receive the content-length of the download. This is the value read from the Content-Length: field. Stores -1 if the size is not known.

Protocols

HTTP(S)

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode res;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
    /* Perform the request */
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    if(!res) {
      /* check the size */
      curl_off_t cl;
      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T, &cl);
      if(!res) {
        printf("Download size: %" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T "\n", cl);
      }
    }
  }
}

Return value

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

Releases

32 releases since macOS 12.0.1; the text changed 9 times.

  1. 12.0.1–12.2
  2. 12.3–12.5
  3. 13.0
  4. 13.1
  5. 13.2
  6. 13.3
  7. 13.4
  8. 13.5–14.1
  9. 14.2–14.4
  10. 14.5–26.5

Availability

Added in 7.55.0

From curl 166.0.0.0.1 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.