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-Updated: June 17, 2003 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
+Updated: December 8, 2003 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
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5.2 How can I receive all data into a large memory chunk?
5.3 How do I fetch multiple files with libcurl?
5.4 Does libcurl do Winsock initing on win32 systems?
- 5.5 Does CURLOPT_FILE and CURLOPT_INFILE work on win32 ?
+ 5.5 Does CURLOPT_WRITEDATA and CURLOPT_READDATA work on win32 ?
5.6 What about Keep-Alive or persistent connections?
5.7 Link errors when building libcurl on Windows!
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Yes, if told to in the curl_global_init() call.
- 5.5 Does CURLOPT_FILE and CURLOPT_INFILE work on win32 ?
+ 5.5 Does CURLOPT_WRITEDATA and CURLOPT_READDATA work on win32 ?
Yes, but you cannot open a FILE * and pass the pointer to a DLL and have
- that DLL use the FILE *. If you set CURLOPT_FILE you must also use
- CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION as well to set a function that writes the file, even
- if that simply writes the data to the specified FILE*. Similarly, if you use
- CURLOPT_INFILE you must also specify CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.
+ that DLL use the FILE * (as the DLL and the client application cannot access
+ each others' variable memory areas). If you set CURLOPT_WRITEDATA you must
+ also use CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION as well to set a function that writes the
+ file, even if that simply writes the data to the specified FILE *.
+ Similarly, if you use CURLOPT_READDATA you must also specify
+ CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.
(Provided by Joel DeYoung and Bob Schader)