On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 informatik4u_at_web.de wrote:

> here is my code for reading the string:
> ...
> res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
> xmldata = res; // xmldata is a c++ string

curl_easy_perform() returns an CURLcode type, which isn't string:

   http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_perform.html

But it looks like you might need to start with the tutorial instead:

   http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-tutorial.html

There's also a C++ binding for libcurl that might be interesting for you:

   http://rrette.com/curlpp.html

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