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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
.\" *
.\" **************************************************************************
.\"
-.TH CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD 3 "1 Sep 2015" "libcurl 7.44.0" "curl_easy_getinfo options"
+.TH CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD 3 "June 15, 2017" "libcurl 7.59.0" "curl_easy_getinfo options"
+
.SH NAME
CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD \- get content-length of download
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -32,10 +33,30 @@ CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD,
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 isn't known.
+
+\fICURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD_T(3)\fP is a newer replacement that returns a more
+sensible variable type.
.SH PROTOCOLS
HTTP(S)
.SH EXAMPLE
-TODO
+.nf
+CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
+if(curl) {
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://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);
+ }
+ }
+}
+.fi
.SH AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.6.1
.SH RETURN VALUE