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5 .TH libcurl 3 "12 Aug 2003" "libcurl 7.10.7" "libcurl easy interface"
7 libcurl-easy \- easy interface overview
9 When using libcurl's "easy" interface you init your session and get a handle
10 (often referred to as an "easy handle"), which you use as input to the easy
11 interface functions you use. Use \fIcurl_easy_init(3)\fP to get the handle.
13 You continue by setting all the options you want in the upcoming transfer, the
14 most important among them is the URL itself (you can't transfer anything
15 without a specified URL as you may have figured out yourself). You might want
16 to set some callbacks as well that will be called from the library when data
17 is available etc. \fIcurl_easy_setopt(3)\fP is used for all this.
19 When all is setup, you tell libcurl to perform the transfer using
20 \fIcurl_easy_perform(3)\fP. It will then do the entire operation and won't
21 return until it is done (successfully or not).
23 After the transfer has been made, you can set new options and make another
24 transfer, or if you're done, cleanup the session by calling
25 \fIcurl_easy_cleanup(3)\fP. If you want persistent connections, you don't
26 cleanup immediately, but instead run ahead and perform other transfers using