QString static callback function from CURL

[tpf80]

I also notice that QHttp doesn't really have a good way to do cookies like curl does.
It seems like In order to keep my session, I would need to extract the cookie after each request, and then add it to the next one in a semi-manual fashion.

When I use curl, I just can issue a command which creates a "cookiejar" in memory when i first start it up and handles preserving the cookies itself.

So I guess I kindof have to decide what I want to do:

1) use CURL and figure out this static member variable stuff to get the data I want out (since I already have curl logging in, doing cookies for the session, etc perfectly already)

or..

2) rewrite code in QHTTP which would feel cleaner but would have to worry about a few more things like the cookies myself.

[wysota]

I also notice that QHttp doesn't really have a good way to do cookies like curl does.
It seems like In order to keep my session, I would need to extract the cookie after each request, and then add it to the next one in a semi-manual fashion.

Not exactly (I use a base request header object where I set the cookie, so that I don't have to do it on every request), but in general you're correct.

When I use curl, I just can issue a command which creates a "cookiejar" in memory when i first start it up and handles preserving the cookies itself.

Curl is definitely a higher level tool than QHttp so it has much much more capabilities (QHttp is really only an interface to the protocol), but on the other hand it'd be much easier to parse the result using QHttp.

[tpf80]

Thanks to all that replied, in the end I used libcurl for what I was doing with the HTTP stuff, and got it to work real well in fact.

What I ended up doing was using the std string/char functions in the callback function, so that it would take out what it needed on the fly and write it to the memory chunk. Since in the callback its using those, it made things easier and have much better performance.

In the main Qt program, I used the QString, by appending the returned data chunk via QString::fromUtf8. I could then do with it what I wanted to.