On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 01:32:16PM +0530, Surya Kiran Gullapalli wrote:
> ostringstream os ;
> os << "http://curl.haxx.se" ;
> curl_easy_setopt(http_handle, CURLOPT_URL,
> os.str().c_str()) ;

The docs for CURLOPT_URL say: "The string must remain present until curl no
longer needs it, as it doesn't copy the string."

However, when you call os.str(), a temporary string object is created by
the C++ compiler, and c_str() returns a pointer to its contents. Once the
curl_easy_setopt() call returns, the temporary object is destroyed, so you
are left with a dangling pointer to the URL.

Cheers,

  Richard

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