CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD(3)

CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD3

Specified size of the upload

Usage

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

Overview

Pass a pointer to a double to receive the specified size of the upload. Since 7.19.4, this returns -1 if the size is not known.

CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD_T(3) is a newer replacement that returns a more sensible variable type.

Protocols

This functionality affects all supported protocols

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
    /* Perform the upload */
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    if(result == CURLE_OK) {
      /* check the size */
      double cl;
      result = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD, &cl);
      if(result == CURLE_OK) {
        printf("Size: %.0f\n", cl);
      }
    }
  }
}

Deprecated

Deprecated since 7.55.0.

Return value

curl_easy_getinfo(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

Availability

Added in curl 7.6.1

From curl 8.23.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.