cURL is a library and command-line tool for transferring data using several protocols such as HTTP, FTP and Telnet.
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Using cURL to retrieve remote image
I am using the following code to retrieve the URL of a random image in a remote folder that I own.
As a newbie and although this is working I would like to know if this is done properly, if it could ...
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Crawling SPOJ through cURL and C++
I am trying to write industry standard code.
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-follow-a-user-on-Spoj-for-solving-problems-Refer-Details
Someone gave me this A2A.
And I wrote this code for it
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calloc, malloc, free and realloc wrappers to store the size being allocated
I'm currently building a node.js addon for libcurl. Right now I'm trying to correctly use v8::Isolate::GetCurrent()->AdjustAmountOfExternalAllocatedMemory to ...
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Reusing curl easy handles in C
In a C project I want to reuse curl easy handles. The flow of program is like:
Client --> C Application --> Call URL1, do something, Call URL2, do something, Call URL3...
In short, for each client ...
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Pulling data from API, Allowed memory exhausted
I'm working on a project where I pull data (JSON) from an API. I would like to manipulate this data and store this as useful information in my DB (MySQL). My code is working if I would like to make, ...
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URL image validation
I'm trying to write a method to validate an image from a URL. The method will accept an array of image URL. The image should be validated by its type, size and dimensions. Right now, I'm able to ...
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Checking whether a site is up or down
I have this PHP curl function to check if a site is online or not:
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Sending an SMS message in C
Recently I've been fiddling with the idea of sending a text message using C. Looking at a few options, I thought that using libcurl to send an SMTP email using TLS for some security would be the best ...
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cURL GET requests receiving XML data
First of all, I would like to know if there is any difference (execution-time) in C between:
GET request made by using cURL
GET request make by using sockets (BSD sockets)
Second, I've done a C ...
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Upload image from Remote Server using URL
This PHP class is to allow user to enter a URL of a remote image file and have it download the image to local server. It will be used in a Markdown editor just like Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange ...
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Testing uptime of my personal server
I made some code to test my personal servers uptime. It logs in to my router page and sees if it returns status 200. A cron job runs it every 5 minutes. Please let me know if I can make the code more ...
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DMZ passthru script
I have a server that cannot be connected to from the internet, but I need to get some info to it. I have another server that can, so I have a simple passthru script that I want to see if you all think ...
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Pinging a URL with libcurl
I've asked a question about pinging a URL before, but I wanted something that was a bit shorter and still just as efficient. libcurl seemed to be the perfect answer. Here is my method:
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Dynamic library to intercept oddsock hostname lookups
Just for the fun of it, I decided I would try to create sort of an intermediate DNS system for the oddsock SOCKS proxy. With this, the domain name extension .unet is statically resolved when requested....
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Reverse-engineering with Filepicker API
I have this script to pull data out of the Filepicker API internal. It's mostly reverse-engineering and the code seems to be ugly to me. How can this be improved?
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Optimize web-scraping of Moscow grocery website
This code works fine, but I believe it has optimization problems. Please review this.
Also, please keep in mind that it stops after each iteration of the loop ...
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Bash script to clone all public repos or gists for a specified user, optionally to a directory of choice
I wrote this script as a way to backup and/or download quickly a set of repos or gists from a user. I don't have any major concerns but I'm a noob at bash scripting, and I've been scouring the ...
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Wrapping Curl, an HTTP client
I have written an HTTP client wrapped the libcurl. It should be able to do HTTP get/post with string/map param, with cookies and proxy.
Can somebody review the code? B.T.W., I'm not sure the way ...
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Webhook Structuring
I am building a Webhook model so users can receive data from a messaging app.
I have never created such a system before, and I'd like to get some feedback on my attempt.
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HTTP Stream Part 2 A stream that opens an HTTP GET and then acts like a normal C++ istream
The review I asked for yesterday was for a header only library.
HTTP Stream A stream that opens an HTTP GET and then acts like a normal C++ istream
This has some limitations as it downloads all the ...
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Stream that opens an HTTP GET and then acts like a normal C++ istream
Needed a quick stream to get JSON objects.
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Downloading the oldest available version of some data files
I am using the cURL tool in MATLAB 2013b with Ubuntu to download a whole bunch of files. The files have one of three possible versions: 1.0.0, 2.0.0, or 2.1.0. Using the HTTP, I first check the ...
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Bash script to monitor Webserver php script
Below is a script I wrote today to use CURL to monitor the length of various HTTP server outputs and output a response if this is different than 103 characters.
This is my first bash script, so I had ...
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Service status checker… Is there a more efficient way?
I've been working on a website status checker.. However this array that I use has around 30 sites within it, I've noticed it's taking around 6-7 seconds to load it.
I was wondering if there's any ...
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Secure CURL to & handle response from Payment Gateway
I'm using a payment gateway and am trying to implement the post and response handling with CURL so that it all happens on one page.
The following is tested and works but I want to double check it's ...
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Calling restful web services efficiently
I need to use this code to fetch data from web service and show them in a site properly but after I request for the webservice I am unable to load them fast. Site is loading very slow.
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Optimizing PHP script fetching entire HTML pages
The following script should get links which are stored in a text file (line by line), then put them into an array and finally scan each links' source code for a certain line. If this line is found, it ...
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DownloadFile Function (using LibCurl)
Please tell me if this function is correct (I believe it to be), efficient, and clean.
Function to check:
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Improve multithreading with network IO and database queries
I'm writing a script that:
fetch a list of urls from a db (about 10000 urls)
download all the pages and insert them into the db
parse the code
if(some condition) do other inserts into the db
I ...
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Getting a remote file to local storage
I've prepared a function using cURL to get a remote file to the local storage:
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Tiny Curl C++ wrapper
I have written this sample code to fetch a web page in C++ using libcurl. Please review it.
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Dynamic IP-address logging
Inspired by Don Stewart's article on Scripting with Haskell I tried a rewrite of a shell-script I did the other day. I was really astonished how easily it worked but as a whole it is about double the ...
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Handling many networking exceptions in Ruby
What would be a prettier/faster way to do handling of multiple errors in Ruby? Here is the code I am working with:
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