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 * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
 *
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/* <DESC>
 * Make a HTTP POST with data from memory and receive response in memory.
 * </DESC>
 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>

struct MemoryStruct {
  char *memory;
  size_t size;
};

static size_t
WriteMemoryCallback(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
{
  size_t realsize = size * nmemb;
  struct MemoryStruct *mem = (struct MemoryStruct *)userp;

  mem->memory = realloc(mem->memory, mem->size + realsize + 1);
  if(mem->memory == NULL) {
    /* out of memory! */
    printf("not enough memory (realloc returned NULL)\n");
    return 0;
  }

  memcpy(&(mem->memory[mem->size]), contents, realsize);
  mem->size += realsize;
  mem->memory[mem->size] = 0;

  return realsize;
}

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;
  CURLcode res;
  struct MemoryStruct chunk;
  static const char *postthis="Field=1&Field=2&Field=3";

  chunk.memory = malloc(1);  /* will be grown as needed by realloc above */
  chunk.size = 0;    /* no data at this point */

  curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {

    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.org/");

    /* send all data to this function  */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteMemoryCallback);

    /* we pass our 'chunk' struct to the callback function */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *)&chunk);

    /* some servers don't like requests that are made without a user-agent
       field, so we provide one */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0");

    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, postthis);

    /* if we don't provide POSTFIELDSIZE, libcurl will strlen() by
       itself */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, (long)strlen(postthis));

    /* Perform the request, res will get the return code */
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    /* Check for errors */
    if(res != CURLE_OK) {
      fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
              curl_easy_strerror(res));
    }
    else {
      /*
       * Now, our chunk.memory points to a memory block that is chunk.size
       * bytes big and contains the remote file.
       *
       * Do something nice with it!
       */
      printf("%s\n",chunk.memory);
    }

    /* always cleanup */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);

    free(chunk.memory);

    /* we're done with libcurl, so clean it up */
    curl_global_cleanup();
  }
  return 0;
}