curl-library
Re: Curl and C CGI question
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 20:36:59 +0200 (MET DST)
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Cameron Guill wrote:
> I am writing a c cgi wrapper for remote web page reading.
> I compile fine with the lib-curl options and when I run the application
> command line, I get back the data correctly.
> (cc htmtest.c -o
> htmtest.exe -I/home/cguill/include -L/home/cguill/lib -lcurl)
> When I try to run it as a cgi I get a server error. The logs show
> "htmtest.exe produced invalid headers".
This is usually because you didn't output a proper Content-Type: header so
the web server doesn't like your CGI.
> Now I checked for problems with the web server. I compiled with straight
> gcc (cc htmtest2.c -o htmtest2.exe) on another c cgi that does a simple
> display to browser and it ran fine.
> I then compiled it with the lib-curl libs and it produced the same core
> dumps as the htmtest.exe
core dumps?
> This leads me to believe that the problem I am getting is a result of the
> lib-curl libraries.
I fail to see in which way libcurl can fail if it gets called by your web
server but work when you call it from a command line. libcurl is but a
library. It kind of sounds like the problem is related to other things.
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