progressfunc: a simple CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION example

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+/***************************************************************************
+ *                                  _   _ ____  _
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+ *                             / __| | | | |_) | |
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+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ *
+ * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+ * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+ * are also available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html.
+ *
+ * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
+ * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
+ * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
+ *
+ * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.
+ *
+ ***************************************************************************/
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+
+#define STOP_DOWNLOAD_AFTER_THIS_MANY_BYTES 6000
+
+static int progress(void *p,
+                    double dltotal, double dlnow,
+                    double ultotal, double ulnow)
+{
+  fprintf(stderr, "UP: %g of %g  DOWN: %g of %g\r\n",
+          ulnow, ultotal, dlnow, dltotal);
+
+  if(dlnow > STOP_DOWNLOAD_AFTER_THIS_MANY_BYTES)
+    return 1;
+  return 0;
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+  CURL *curl;
+  CURLcode res=0;
+
+  curl = curl_easy_init();
+  if(curl) {
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/");
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, progress);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 0L);
+    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+
+    if(res)
+      fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", curl_easy_strerror(res));
+
+    /* always cleanup */
+    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+  }
+  return (int)res;
+}