Using std.net.curl to stream data

[Chris Williams via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 14:18:38 UTC, Trollgeir wrote:
> I'm having some trouble trying to stream data to my plot.ly 
> graph:
> https://plot.ly/62/~Trollgeir/
>
> The API:  https://plot.ly/streaming/
>
> I am able to post messages that get recorded into the stream 
> live, although right after curl uploads it, it just seems to 
> wait for a response it's not getting, and eventually timeouts. 
> Does anyone have any advice?
>
> auto client = HTTP("stream.plot.ly");
> client.addRequestHeader("plotly-streamtoken","e8bg6omat6");
> client.verbose = true;
>
> string msg = "{ \"x\": 500, \"y\": 500 } \n";
> client.postData(msg);
> client.perform;	

You have to define a handler for HTTP.onReceive before calling 
HTTP.perform. It will receive ubyte arrays for each packet that 
comes in. For most purposes, you just copy that onto the end of a 
string in an external scope. But if you're streaming content, 
you'll need to do something more fancy.