> Message: 9 > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:24:57 +0200 (CEST) > From: Daniel Stenberg > Subject: Re: How to get chunked http data and its length > To: libcurl development > Message-ID: > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, xuhf wrote: > >> When libcurl receives http response using chunked, how do I know the length >> of the chunk data? > > You mean the entire response body? You don't know that size until the whole > thing has been received. That's in fact the whole point with chunked transfer > encoding! > >> Another word, can libcurl tells the length? > > It reads the data, chunk by chunk, and it knows how large each chunk is and it > knows when the server has sent the last chunk and then it has reached the end. > So no, libcurl doesn't know the size of anything else than the currently read > chunk. > >> Or libcurl will receive all the chunk data and then call write function? > > libcurl "decodes" the chunked encoding and calls the write function, so an > application will never see any encoding or even need to bother about it being > there or not. > > -- > > / daniel.haxx.se
Maybe I didn't explain my problem clearly. In fact, I just want to get one chunk data, not entire response body. So I must get each chunklength. I know libcurl knows how large each chunk is, but can I? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ 上Windows Live 中国首页，下载最新版Messenger！ http://www.windowslive.cn
