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/***************************************************************************
 *                                  _   _ ____  _
 *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
 *                             / __| | | | |_) | |
 *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 *
 * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
 *
 * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
 * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
 * are also available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html.
 *
 * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
 * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
 * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
 *
 * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
 * KIND, either express or implied.
 *
 ***************************************************************************/
/* This is an example application source code using the multi interface
 * to do a multipart formpost without "blocking". */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

#include <curl/curl.h>

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;

  CURLM *multi_handle;
  int still_running;

  struct curl_httppost *formpost=NULL;
  struct curl_httppost *lastptr=NULL;
  struct curl_slist *headerlist=NULL;
  static const char buf[] = "Expect:";

  /* Fill in the file upload field. This makes libcurl load data from
     the given file name when curl_easy_perform() is called. */
  curl_formadd(&formpost,
               &lastptr,
               CURLFORM_COPYNAME, "sendfile",
               CURLFORM_FILE, "postit2.c",
               CURLFORM_END);

  /* Fill in the filename field */
  curl_formadd(&formpost,
               &lastptr,
               CURLFORM_COPYNAME, "filename",
               CURLFORM_COPYCONTENTS, "postit2.c",
               CURLFORM_END);

  /* Fill in the submit field too, even if this is rarely needed */
  curl_formadd(&formpost,
               &lastptr,
               CURLFORM_COPYNAME, "submit",
               CURLFORM_COPYCONTENTS, "send",
               CURLFORM_END);

  curl = curl_easy_init();
  multi_handle = curl_multi_init();

  /* initalize custom header list (stating that Expect: 100-continue is not
     wanted */
  headerlist = curl_slist_append(headerlist, buf);
  if(curl && multi_handle) {

    /* what URL that receives this POST */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/upload.cgi");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L);

    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headerlist);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPPOST, formpost);

    curl_multi_add_handle(multi_handle, curl);

    curl_multi_perform(multi_handle, &still_running);

    while(still_running) {
      struct timeval timeout;
      int rc; /* select() return code */

      fd_set fdread;
      fd_set fdwrite;
      fd_set fdexcep;
      int maxfd = -1;

      long curl_timeo = -1;

      FD_ZERO(&fdread);
      FD_ZERO(&fdwrite);
      FD_ZERO(&fdexcep);

      /* set a suitable timeout to play around with */
      timeout.tv_sec = 1;
      timeout.tv_usec = 0;

      curl_multi_timeout(multi_handle, &curl_timeo);
      if(curl_timeo >= 0) {
        timeout.tv_sec = curl_timeo / 1000;
        if(timeout.tv_sec > 1)
          timeout.tv_sec = 1;
        else
          timeout.tv_usec = (curl_timeo % 1000) * 1000;
      }

      /* get file descriptors from the transfers */
      curl_multi_fdset(multi_handle, &fdread, &fdwrite, &fdexcep, &maxfd);

      /* In a real-world program you OF COURSE check the return code of the
         function calls.  On success, the value of maxfd is guaranteed to be
         greater or equal than -1.  We call select(maxfd + 1, ...), specially in
         case of (maxfd == -1), we call select(0, ...), which is basically equal
         to sleep. */

      rc = select(maxfd+1, &fdread, &fdwrite, &fdexcep, &timeout);

      switch(rc) {
      case -1:
        /* select error */
        break;
      case 0:
      default:
        /* timeout or readable/writable sockets */
        printf("perform!\n");
        curl_multi_perform(multi_handle, &still_running);
        printf("running: %d!\n", still_running);
        break;
      }
    }

    curl_multi_cleanup(multi_handle);

    /* always cleanup */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);

    /* then cleanup the formpost chain */
    curl_formfree(formpost);

    /* free slist */
    curl_slist_free_all (headerlist);
  }
  return 0;
}