DownloadURL()

bool WAEngine::DownloadURL ( std::string  url, std::string *  readBuffer  )

static

Given an url it downloads its HTML contents.

Parameters

[in]	url	URL to download
[out]	readBuffer	Downloaded website

Return values

true	All OK
false	Error while downloading

                                                               {
    CURL *curl = nullptr;
    CURLcode res;
 
    readBuffer->clear();
 
    curl = curl_easy_init();
    if(curl == nullptr) {
        std::cerr << "CURL init error!" << std::endl;
        return false;
    }
    
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1L);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteCallback);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, readBuffer);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
 
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
    
    if (res != CURLE_OK) {
        std::cerr << "Response code " << res << std::endl;
        return false;
    }
    
    return true;
}