#include <iostream>
#include <string>

extern "C" {
    #include <curl/curl.h>
}
int main() {
    CURL *curl_handle;
    CURLcode res;

    static const char *postthis="{\"size\":100000,\"query\":{\"range\":{\"snapshotTime\":{\"from\":\"2012-10-31T13:00:00\"}}}}";
    curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
    curl_handle = curl_easy_init();

    if(curl_handle) {
        curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost:9202/_all/_search");
        curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, postthis);

        curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, (long)strlen(postthis));
//        curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1L);
        curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEHEADER, stdout);
        curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, stdout);

        res = curl_easy_perform(curl_handle);
        if(res != CURLE_OK)
                  fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
                                        curl_easy_strerror(res));
        curl_easy_cleanup(curl_handle);
        return 0;
    }
}