Can anyone show (through code) or explain to me how I might use libevent and curl together in a c program? I'm trying to write a high-performance non-blocking data monitor which needs to upload data to a CouchDB instance. I'm familiar with both libevent and curl, but merging curl_multi with libevent has me stumped for some reason. I do not understand the program flow of the offical libcurl example - can anyone point me to, or supply, a simpler example?
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The key is really the curl_multi_socket_action() function that should be used as soon as your event library says there's something on a socket to deal with. Event-based libcurl is more complex than "plain" libcurl so doing a very easy example is not that straight forward.
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1when I call `curl_multi_socket_action()` telling it either to read or write, does it use the read/write callback functions that were set up using `curl_easy_setopt()`? If not, how does it perform the read/write? – Peter Downs Aug 03 '11 at 19:06
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1Yes, it will use the callbacks for reading/writing as you have setup. – Daniel Stenberg Aug 03 '11 at 21:07
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Ah, alright, that make this a little clearer. Thanks for your help. – Peter Downs Aug 03 '11 at 21:19
