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Why isn't libcurl doing anything? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have tried googling, and found no solution to my problem. I'm trying to learn how to use libcurl, a c networking library. I tried compiling a program that was automatically generated from curl, and a few examples i found online but nothing happened. I got no errors or logs, the program stopped "sucessfully" but i get no output. I also cant write to the console either while the library is included.

Any help is appreciated.

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[–] palebluethought 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's no way to even attempt to answer your question without the actual code

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You're right, but it doesn't do anything, no matter what the code is, so I assumed that I needn't include it. Kinda stupid of me. In any case, here it is:

/********* Sample code generated by the curl command line tool **********
 * All curl_easy_setopt() options are documented at:
 * https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html
 ************************************************************************/
#include <curl/curl.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  CURLcode ret;
  CURL *hnd;

  hnd = curl_easy_init();
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, 102400L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_URL, "https://pastebin.com/api/api_post.php");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "api_dev_key=MY_API_KEY&api_paste_code=test&api_option=paste");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE, (curl_off_t)81);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "curl/8.9.1");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 50L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP, 1L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPALIVE, 1L);

  /* Here is a list of options the curl code used that cannot get generated
     as source easily. You may choose to either not use them or implement
     them yourself.

  CURLOPT_WRITEDATA was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION was set to a function pointer
  CURLOPT_READDATA was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_READFUNCTION was set to a function pointer
  CURLOPT_SEEKDATA was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION was set to a function pointer
  CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_STDERR was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION was set to a function pointer
  CURLOPT_HEADERDATA was set to an object pointer

  */

  ret = curl_easy_perform(hnd);

  curl_easy_cleanup(hnd);
  hnd = NULL;

  return (int)ret;
}
/**** End of sample code ****/

Another piece of code i tried was:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>

int main(void) {
    CURL *curl;
    CURLcode res;


    curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT);
    curl = curl_easy_init();

    if(curl) {
       
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost:5000/a");

     
        const char *data = "hello!";
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, data);


        res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

     
        if(res != CURLE_OK) {
            fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n", curl_easy_strerror(res));
        }

  
        curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
    }

  
    curl_global_cleanup();

    return 0;
}

compiled it with gcc test.c -o test.exe -IC:\Users\MY_USERNAME\scoop\apps\curl\current\include -LC:\Users\MY_USERNAME\scoop\apps\curl\current\lib -lcurl but you can replace the paths with wherever the libcurl include directory is (i hope).