getCurlInfo {RCurl} | R Documentation

## Access information about a CURL request

### Description

This function provides access to data about a previously executed CURL request that is accessible via a `CURLHandle` object. This means, of course, that one must have access to the `CURLHandle` object. The information one can get includes items such as the name of the file (potentially containing redirects), download time,

See `getCurlInfoConstants` for the names of the possible fields.

### Usage

    getCurlInfo(curl, which = getCurlInfoConstants())
    getCurlInfoConstants()

### Arguments

`curl` | the `CURLHandle` object used to perform the request. This is a reference to an opaque internal C-level data structure that is provided and used by libcurl to make a request.
`which` | identifiers for the elements of interest. These can be specified by integer value or by name. The names are matched against those in the `getCurlInfoConstants`

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### Details

This is an interface to the `get_curl_info` routine in the libcurl package.

### Value

A named list whose elements correspond to the requested fields. The names are expanded to match the names of these fields and the values are either strings or integer values.

### Author(s)

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

### References

Curl homepage http://curl.haxx.se

### See Also

`curlPerform` `getURL` `getCurlHandle`

### Examples

      curl = getCurlHandle()
      getURL("http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/index.html", curl = curl)
      getCurlInfo(curl)
      rm(curl)  # release the curl!

[Package RCurl version 0.98-1 Index]