curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD.md

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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Title: CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD Section: 3 Source: libcurl See-also:

• CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD (3)
• curl_easy_getinfo (3)
• curl_easy_setopt (3) Protocol:
• All Added-in: 7.6.1 ---

NAME

CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD - get content-length of download

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD,
                           double *content_length);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a pointer to a double to receive the content-length of the download. This is the value read from the Content-Length: field. Since 7.19.4, this returns -1 if the size is not known.

CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T(3) is a newer replacement that returns a more sensible variable type.

%PROTOCOLS%

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode res;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");

    /* Perform the request */
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

    if(!res) {
      /* check the size */
      double cl;
      res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD, &cl);
      if(!res) {
        printf("Size: %.0f\n", cl);
      }
    }
  }
}

DEPRECATED

Deprecated since 7.55.0.

%AVAILABILITY%

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.