On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Mark Fletcher wrote:

> We use libcurl for our RSS crawler, using the multi interface in a single
> threaded configuration. We began receiving complaints of extra fetches in
> cases of HTTP redirects. I did some investigating, and it looks like the
> following change needs to be made to lib/multi.c at line 440:
>
> easy->result = Curl_follow(easy->easy_handle,
> easy->easy_conn->newurl);
> easy->easy_conn->newurl = NULL;
>
> I couldn't find where newurl was ever cleared before. Can someone verify
> that this is a correct fix and that the issue isn't being caused by us using
> the library in an incorrect fashion?

I believe this is a correct fix, and a very similar one has already been
committed to CVS to be used in the upcoming release...

> btw, libcurl is a great package and it's otherwise worked very well for us.

I'm happy it works nicely for you!

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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