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+/***************************************************************************
+ *                                  _   _ ____  _
+ *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
+ *                             / __| | | | |_) | |
+ *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
+ *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2013, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ *
+ * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+ * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+ * are also available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html.
+ *
+ * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
+ * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
+ * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
+ *
+ * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.
+ *
+ ***************************************************************************/ 
+#include "config.h"
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+
+#include "libupnpp/log.hxx"
+#include "libupnpp/control/httpdownload.hxx"
+
+using namespace std;
+using namespace UPnPP;
+
+static size_t
+write_callback(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
+{
+  size_t realsize = size * nmemb;
+  string* out = (string*)userp;
+
+  out->append((const char *)contents, realsize);
+  return realsize;
+}
+
+
+bool downloadUrlWithCurl(const string& url, string& out, long timeoutsecs)
+{
+    CURL *curl;
+    CURLcode res;
+    bool ret = false;
+
+    curl = curl_easy_init();
+    if(!curl) {
+        LOGERR("downloadUrlWithCurl: curl_easy_init failed" << endl);
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, timeoutsecs);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1); 
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_callback);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &out); 
+    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+    if(res != CURLE_OK) {
+        LOGERR("downloadUrlWithCurl: curl_easy_perform(): " << 
+               curl_easy_strerror(res) << endl);
+    } else {
+        ret = true;
+    }
+    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+
+    return ret;
+}