Fetching a web page

- The libcurl library lets you send or retrieve information … to or from the internet in a four step process. … First, you initialize the easy curl interface, … which returns a curl handle, like a file handle, … used to access the data. … Second, you set options for the curl handle, … which include the URL, data handling, air handling, … and so on. … Third, you perform the curl operation. … And finally, you clean up curl, … similar to closing an open file. … This code shows the most basic of curl programs … which fetches text data from a website. … The URL is assigned to a string address at line nine. … Libcurl is initialized at line 12, … with the results assigned to the curl variable CURL … declared at line seven. … Now if this variable is null, … an error messages output, and the program halts. … The only option set is a webpage address … by using the curl_easy_setopt function at line 21. … Now multiple calls to this function can be made … depending on what you're doing with libcurl. …