CURLOPT_STREAM_WEIGHT(3)

NAME
CURLOPT_STREAM_WEIGHT - numerical stream weight

SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_STREAM_WEIGHT, long weight);

DESCRIPTION
Set the long weight to a number between 1 and 256.

When using HTTP/2, this option sets the individual weight for this particular stream used by the easy handle. Setting and using weights only makes sense and is only usable when doing multiple streams over the same connections, which thus implies that you use CURLMOPT_PIPELINING(3).

This option can be set during transfer and causes the updated weight info get sent to the server the next time an HTTP/2 frame is sent to the server.

See section 5.3 of RFC 7540 for protocol details.

Streams with the same parent should be allocated resources proportionally based on their weight. If you have two streams going, stream A with weight 16 and stream B with weight 32, stream B gets two thirds (32/48) of the available bandwidth (assuming the server can send off the data equally for both streams).

DEFAULT
If nothing is set, the HTTP/2 protocol itself uses its own default which is 16.

PROTOCOLS
HTTP

EXAMPLE
int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  CURL *curl2 = curl_easy_init(); /* a second handle */
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/one");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_STREAM_WEIGHT, 10L);

    /* the second has twice the weight */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl2, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/two");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl2, CURLOPT_STREAM_WEIGHT, 20L);

    /* then add both to a multi handle and transfer them! */
  }
}

AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.46.0

RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

SEE ALSO
CURLMOPT_PIPELINING(3), CURLOPT_PIPEWAIT(3), CURLOPT_STREAM_DEPENDS(3), CURLOPT_STREAM_DEPENDS_E(3)