Daniel Stenberg e694c8284a

docs/libcurl/opts: clarify the return values

Expand a little.

- mention the type name of the return code
- avoid stating which exact return codes that might be returned, as that
  varies over time, builds and conditions
- avoid stating some always return OK
- refer to the manpage documenting all the return codes

Closes #15900

2025-01-02 17:13:33 +01:00

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Title

Section

Source

See-also

Protocol

Added-in

curl

CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD

libcurl

CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD_T (3)

CURLINFO_SIZE_UPLOAD_T (3)

CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE (3)

curl_easy_getinfo (3)

curl_easy_setopt (3)

All

7.4.1

NAME

CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD - get the number of downloaded bytes

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD, double *dlp);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a pointer to a double to receive the total amount of bytes that were downloaded. The amount is only for the latest transfer and gets reset again for each new transfer. This counts actual payload data, what's also commonly called body. All meta and header data is excluded and not included in this number.

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

%PROTOCOLS%

EXAMPLE

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 */
      double dl;
      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD, &dl);
      if(!res) {
        printf("Downloaded %.0f bytes\n", dl);
      }
    }
  }
}

DEPRECATED

Deprecated since 7.55.0.

%AVAILABILITY%

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(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).

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