CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE(3)

CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE3

Get size of sent request

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE, long *sizep);

Overview

Pass a pointer to a long to receive the total size of the issued requests. This is so far only for HTTP requests. Note that this may be more than one request if CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION(3) is enabled.

Protocols

All

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode res;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    if(res == CURLE_OK) {
      long req;
      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE, &req);
      if(!res)
        printf("Request size: %ld bytes\n", req);
    }
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

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 7.4.1

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