C++ Reactive Programming

The libcurl and the HTTP client programming

We have already come across the CURL utility, which is, in fact a wrapper on top of the libcurl library. We will use the libcurl  library to access REST services we wrote,in this chapter. To get you familiar with the libcurl library and its programming model, we will write a basic HTTP client using the library: The program will ping the  http://example.com.

/////////////////////////////////// // A Simple Program to demonstrate // the usage of libcurl library // #include <stdio.h> #include <curl/curl.h> /////////////////////// // Entrypoint for the program // int main(void) { CURL *curl; CURLcode res; /////////////////////////// // Initialize the library // curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { //----------- ...