Hi Daniel, Is there any curl_debug option, to capture the exact amount of data usage that is happening via http_post?
thanks. On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:10 PM, Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Kman Devnull wrote: > > I am currently using HTTP_POST with curl on my RPi like device to send >> data to cloud from my IoT sensor. It consumes around 3MB of data on my SIM >> connection. >> >> Is there anything I could set in my curl/options to minimize the >> data_usage? i.e. something like may be to strip away all the HTTP headers, >> and to ensure only the actual data is sent across ? >> > > If you check how much headers curl sends in a request like that, you'll > notice that the total ammount will be at max a few hundred bytes. If you'd > do it over http2 it could compress the headers, even if it would compress > really good you'd only gain data in the order of hundreds of bytes and > you're talking about a 3MB post here. > > Your post is large simply because you're sending large amounts of data. > > -- > > / daniel.haxx.se > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library > Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
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