I am trying to download a json file from a REST webpage in C++ with libcurl. The following code works if I go to the webpage but it doesnt download if I try to access the json ....
I think it should be an easy fix but I cant find any reference to this ...
If I go to webpage it opens the json but this code only returns text/html; charset=utf-8
??????????
CURL *curl;
CURLcode res;
struct curl_slist *headers=NULL; // init to NULL is important
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Accept: application/json");
curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://web.com/api/json/123");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPGET,1);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
//curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://web.com/123.html");//this works!!!
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
if(CURLE_OK == res) {
char *ct;
/* ask for the content-type */
res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE, &ct);
if((CURLE_OK == res) && ct)
printf("We received Content-Type: %s\n", ct);
}
}
/* always cleanup */
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
std::string ServerContent::DownloadJSON(std::string URL)
{
CURL *curl;
CURLcode res;
struct curl_slist *headers=NULL; // init to NULL is important
std::ostringstream oss;
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Accept: application/json");
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Content-Type: application/json");
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "charset: utf-8");
curl = curl_easy_init();
if (curl)
{
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, URL.c_str());
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPGET,1);
curl_easy_setopt(curl,CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION,writer);
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
if (CURLE_OK == res)
{
char *ct;
res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE, &ct);
if((CURLE_OK == res) && ct)
return *DownloadedResponse;
}
}
curl_slist_free_all(headers);
}
static std::string *DownloadedResponse;
static int writer(char *data, size_t size, size_t nmemb, std::string *buffer_in)
{
// Is there anything in the buffer?
if (buffer_in != NULL)
{
// Append the data to the buffer
buffer_in->append(data, size * nmemb);
// How much did we write?
DownloadedResponse = buffer_in;
return size * nmemb;
}
return 0;
}