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-rw-r--r--docs/examples/getinmemory.c40
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/docs/examples/getinmemory.c b/docs/examples/getinmemory.c
index 78e6deb10..8e31e8f00 100644
--- a/docs/examples/getinmemory.c
+++ b/docs/examples/getinmemory.c
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ WriteMemoryCallback(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
struct MemoryStruct *mem = (struct MemoryStruct *)userp;
mem->memory = realloc(mem->memory, mem->size + realsize + 1);
- if (mem->memory == NULL) {
+ if(mem->memory == NULL) {
/* out of memory! */
printf("not enough memory (realloc returned NULL)\n");
- exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ return 0;
}
memcpy(&(mem->memory[mem->size]), contents, realsize);
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ WriteMemoryCallback(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl_handle;
+ CURLcode res;
struct MemoryStruct chunk;
@@ -84,24 +85,31 @@ int main(void)
curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0");
/* get it! */
- curl_easy_perform(curl_handle);
+ res = curl_easy_perform(curl_handle);
+
+ /* check for errors */
+ if(res != CURLE_OK) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
+ curl_easy_strerror(res));
+ }
+ else {
+ /*
+ * Now, our chunk.memory points to a memory block that is chunk.size
+ * bytes big and contains the remote file.
+ *
+ * Do something nice with it!
+ *
+ * You should be aware of the fact that at this point we might have an
+ * allocated data block, and nothing has yet deallocated that data. So when
+ * you're done with it, you should free() it as a nice application.
+ */
+
+ printf("%lu bytes retrieved\n", (long)chunk.size);
+ }
/* cleanup curl stuff */
curl_easy_cleanup(curl_handle);
- /*
- * Now, our chunk.memory points to a memory block that is chunk.size
- * bytes big and contains the remote file.
- *
- * Do something nice with it!
- *
- * You should be aware of the fact that at this point we might have an
- * allocated data block, and nothing has yet deallocated that data. So when
- * you're done with it, you should free() it as a nice application.
- */
-
- printf("%lu bytes retrieved\n", (long)chunk.size);
-
if(chunk.memory)
free(chunk.memory);