Toast/TriviaBot/bot/http/HTTPHelper.cpp
Jack b31eaef6d6 Bot is now basically functional
Big tidy up, new question source.
2016-07-10 01:18:13 +01:00

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#include "HTTPHelper.hpp"
/*
* Warning: (Awful) C Code
*/
std::string HTTPHelper::post_request(std::string url, std::string content_type, std::string data) {
CURL *curl;
CURLcode res;
std::string read_buffer;
struct curl_slist *headers = nullptr;
curl = curl_easy_init();
if (curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
// I wonder what the S in HTTPS stands for
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0L);
std::string content_header = "Content-Type: " + content_type;
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, content_header.c_str());
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, data.c_str());
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_callback);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &read_buffer);
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
if (res != CURLE_OK) {
return "ERROR";
}
/* always cleanup */
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
curl_slist_free_all(headers);
}
return read_buffer;
}
size_t HTTPHelper::write_callback(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp) {
((std::string *) userp)->append((char *)contents, size * nmemb);
return size * nmemb;
}