On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, T. Bharath wrote:

> So far i found that Transfer() has a buffer, scratch of size 1024*50*2
> (100k).

Why *2?

> In the UrlState struct there is a buffer of size (1024*50 + 1) (50k) I
> think these are the main culprits.

There's a 50K transfer buffer, yes. It's used for both downloading and
uploading purposes. But it isn't stack based. The whole 'SessionHandle'
struct (in which UrlState is a sub-struct) is malloc()ed and is the CURL
handle that the application holds and passes to libcurl in all libcurl
function calls.

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