On 05-Aug-2010, at 4:52 PM, Hrishikesh Murukkathampoondi wrote: > I read through the libcurl-tutorial and I am able to set up a handle, > options, and call curl_easy_perform() to download a file. But I do not > understand how I can use curl_easy_pause() to pause the download. > > In my application I spawn a separate thread that uses lib-curl to download > this file so I initially thought I can call easy_pause from the main thread. > But the documentation at http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_pause.html > says that the function should not be called from another thread. > > The call to curl_easy_perform() will not return till the download is complete > so I cannot call curl_easy_pause() from the same thread. > > I am missing something/ Could someone tell me the correct way to use > curl_easy_pause()? > > Thank you > Hrishi
I think http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.curl.library/17141/match=curl%5feasy%5fpause answers my question. curl_easy_pause() should be called from one of the callback functions. I guess the CURL handle should be packaged as an argument into the callback function somehow. Hrishi ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
