Introduced HTTPHelper class to easily perform HTTP operations within services.

[bpdyndnsd] / src / httphelper.h

/** @file
 * @brief HTTPHelper class header. This class represents a Helper to perform HTTP operations easily.
 *
 *
 *
 * @copyright Intra2net AG
 * @license GPLv2
*/

#ifndef HTTPHELPER_H
#define HTTPHELPER_H

#include "logger.h"

#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
#include <curl/curl.h>


class HTTPHelper
{
private:

    std::string Proxy;
    int ProxyPort;
    CURL* CurlEasyHandle;
    std::string CurlWritedataBuff;
    char* CurlErrBuff;

    Logger::Ptr Log;

public:

    typedef boost::shared_ptr<HTTPHelper> Ptr;

    HTTPHelper();

    HTTPHelper(Logger::Ptr _log, std::string _proxy, int _proxy_port);

    ~HTTPHelper();

    CURL* init_curl(std::string& curl_writedata_buff, char* curl_err_buff) const;


    std::string http_get(const std::string& url);

    void set_curl_url(const std::string& url);

    // libcurl is a C library, so we have to make the callback member function static :-(
    static int http_receive(char *inBuffer, size_t size, size_t nmemb, std::string *outBuffer);

};

#endif