CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD(3)

CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD3

Get the 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

All

Examples

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

Return value

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

Releases

66 releases since macOS 10.12; the text changed 12 times.

  1. 10.12–10.12.5
  2. 10.12.6–10.14.6
  3. 10.15–11.5
  4. 12.0.1–12.2
  5. 12.3–12.5
  6. 13.0
  7. 13.1
  8. 13.2
  9. 13.3
  10. 13.4
  11. 13.5–14.1
  12. 14.2–14.4
  13. 14.5–26.5

Availability

Added in 7.6.1. Deprecated since 7.55.0.

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