CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE - Man Page
get size of sent request
Synopsis
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE, long *sizep);
Description
Pass a pointer to a long to receive the total size of the issued requests. This is so far only for HTTP requests. Note that this may be more than one request if CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION(3) is enabled.
Protocols
This functionality affects all supported protocols
Example
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
if(res == CURLE_OK) {
long req;
res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE, &req);
if(!res)
printf("Request size: %ld bytes\n", req);
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}Availability
Added in curl 7.4.1
Return Value
curl_easy_getinfo(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.
CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).
See Also
CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE(3), CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD_T(3), curl_easy_getinfo(3), curl_easy_setopt(3)
Referenced By
curl_easy_getinfo(3), CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE(3).
2025-11-13 libcurl