C++ download file without curl

Explorer Level 3. Thanks for your help. Here is my observations: 1- If I leave the shared link as it is, curl will download an html file which when opened in a browser I get the below screen.

I am not quite sure what I am doing wrong. Please advise. Below is the code I use: include "Stdafx. Thank for your help. It is supposed to return an HTML page, which isn't what you want. You should probably just decide on one and remove the other. Personally, I'd just use 'curl' since it's more configurable. It's also possible this is related to your proxy configuration, as noted above.

Your linked "version. If you're trying to print that out as text, that might be the "nothing" you're referring to. You may want to try this with a different file that contains some printable text first for clarity. Dear Greg, Thank you for your kind support. I will stick to curl library. Below is the new code with above changes: include "Stdafx. So any suggestion regarding building the library will be much appreciated. Thanks again for your help.

Super Collaborator Level Work Smarter with Dropbox The way we work is changing. Sound good? Instead of passing a callback function to libcurl that writes the retrieved data to a file, pass a function that appends the data to a string untested :.

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Asked 8 years, 3 months ago. Active 8 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 4k times. Many many thanks! Casey Igor Tupitsyn Igor Tupitsyn 1, 1 1 gold badge 16 16 silver badges 41 41 bronze badges. It downloads it to the location you are running it out of. SB, thanks! I did it again and it worked. However, now I have a txt file I replaced. Do you know how it would be possible to parse the content of the file to a string instead without saving this as a text file?

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How to get the length of a file without downloading the file in a cURL binary get request Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 1 month ago. Active 9 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 14k times. It's not uncommon for that information not to be available. Try running curl --head on the same URL from the command line, and see if it shows the file size.

Use curl --version to see what features curl. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Remy Lebeau Remy Lebeau k 29 29 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Is the server sending a success or failure response code?