On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Mohun Biswas wrote:

>> I can only agree. I'll write up a few test cases and make sure libcurl
>> stops doing this. Passing a NULL will then simply do a zero byte POST.
>
> Absolutely. Thanks.

I was a bit too quick in promising this.

Since you can actually provide POST-data with a read callback, setting
POSTFIELDS to NULL is simply a way to say that the data will be provided by a
callback. But, at least setting POSTFIELDS to NULL will no longer do a GET.

Setting POSTFIELDS to "" will send a zero byte POST and setting POSTFIELDS to
NULL and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE to zero will also make a zero byte POST.

Setting HTTPPOST to NULL makes a zero byte post.

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