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CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE(3) Library Functions Manual CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE(3) NAME CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE - receive buffer size SYNOPSIS #include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, long size); DESCRIPTION Pass a long specifying your preferred size (in bytes) for the receive buffer in libcurl. The main point of this would be that the write callback gets called more often and with smaller chunks. Secondly, for some proto- cols, there is a benefit of having a larger buffer for performance. This is treated as a request, not an order. You cannot be guaranteed to ac- tually get the given size. This buffer size is by default CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE (16kB). The maximum buffer size allowed to be set is CURL_MAX_READ_SIZE (10MB). The minimum buffer size allowed to be set is 1024. DO NOT set this option on a handle that is currently used for an active transfer as that may lead to unintended consequences. The maximum size was 512kB until 7.88.0. Starting in libcurl 8.7.0, there is a single transfer buffer allocated per multi handle. This buffer is used by all easy handles added to a multi han- dle no matter how many parallel transfers there are. The buffer remains al- located as long as there are active transfers. DEFAULT CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE (16kB) PROTOCOLS This functionality affects all supported protocols EXAMPLE int main(void) { CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { CURLcode result; curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "sftp://example.com/foo.bin"); /* ask libcurl to allocate a larger receive buffer */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, 120000L); result = curl_easy_perform(curl); curl_easy_cleanup(curl); } } AVAILABILITY Added in curl 7.10 RETURN VALUE curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error. CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3). SEE ALSO CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE(3), CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE(3), CURLOPT_UP- LOAD_BUFFERSIZE(3), CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION(3) libcurl 2026-06-11 CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE(3)
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