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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2014-06-17 09:54:58 +0200
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+.TH CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION 3 "16 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
+.SH NAME
+CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION \- user callback for seeking in input stream
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+
+/* These are the return codes for the seek callbacks */
+#define CURL_SEEKFUNC_OK 0
+#define CURL_SEEKFUNC_FAIL 1 /* fail the entire transfer */
+#define CURL_SEEKFUNC_CANTSEEK 2 /* tell libcurl seeking can't be done, so
+ libcurl might try other means instead */
+
+int seek_callback(void *userp, curl_off_t offset, int origin);
+
+CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION, seek_callback);
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Pass a pointer to your callback function, which should match the prototype
+shown above.
+
+This function gets called by libcurl to seek to a certain position in the
+input stream and can be used to fast forward a file in a resumed upload
+(instead of reading all uploaded bytes with the normal read
+function/callback). It is also called to rewind a stream when doing a HTTP PUT
+or POST with a multi-pass authentication method. The function shall work like
+fseek(3) or lseek(3) and it gets SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR or SEEK_END as argument
+for \fIorigin\fP, although libcurl currently only passes SEEK_SET.
+
+\fIuserp\fP is the pointer you set with \fICURLOPT_SEEKDATA(3)\fP.
+
+The callback function must return \fICURL_SEEKFUNC_OK\fP on success,
+\fICURL_SEEKFUNC_FAIL\fP to cause the upload operation to fail or
+\fICURL_SEEKFUNC_CANTSEEK\fP to indicate that while the seek failed, libcurl
+is free to work around the problem if possible. The latter can sometimes be
+done by instead reading from the input or similar.
+
+If you forward the input arguments directly to fseek(3) or lseek(3), note that
+the data type for \fIoffset\fP is not the same as defined for curl_off_t on
+many systems!
+.SH DEFAULT
+By default, this is NULL and unused.
+.SH PROTOCOLS
+HTTP, FTP, SFTP
+.SH EXAMPLE
+TODO
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+Added in 7.18.0
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR CURLOPT_SEEKDATA "(3), " CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION "(3), "