getCurlHandle {RCurl} | R Documentation

## Create libcurl handles

### Description

These functions create and duplicate curl handles for use in calls to the HTTP facilities provided by that low-level language and this R-level interface. A curl handle is an opaque data type that contains a reference to the internal C-level data structure of libcurl for performing HTTP requests.

The `getCurlMutliHandle` returns an object that can be used for concurrent, multiple requests. It is quite different from the regular curl handle and again, should be treated as an opaque data type.

### Usage

    getCurlHandle(..., .opts = NULL, .encoding = integer())
    dupCurlHandle(curl, ..., .opts = NULL, .encoding = integer())
    getCurlMultiHandle()

### Arguments

`curl` | the existing curl handle that is to be duplicated
`...` | a named list of curl options to set after the handle has been created.
`.opts` | a named list or `CURLOptions` object identifying the curl options for the handle. These and the `...` arguments are used after the handle has been created.
`.encoding` | an integer or a string that explicitly identifies the encoding of the content that is returned by the HTTP server in its response to our query. The possible strings are ‘UTF-8’ or ‘ISO-8859-1’ and the integers should be specified symbolically as `CE_UTF8` and `CE_LATIN1`. Note that, by default, the package attempts to process the header of the HTTP response to determine the encoding. This argument is used when such information is erroneous and the caller knows the correct encoding.

### Details

These functions create C-level data structures.

### Value

An object of class `CURLHandle` which is simply a pointer to the memory for the C structure.

### Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>

### References

Curl homepage http://curl.haxx.se

### See Also

`getURL` `curlPerform`

[Package RCurl version 0.98-1 Index]