On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Patrick Monnerat wrote:

> An other solution would be to revert CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to the non-copy
> version, and add a new option CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS. This will restore
> binary compatibility with pre 7.17.0 applications and allow the copy feature
> too...

Given the current facts and feedback, I guess this is the best idea so far. It
will of course make CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS act in a non-obvious way compared to
all the other setopt() arguments (thus it may lead to some surprising bugs for
users) and CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS would need to have the size set before it
can copy the fields (if binary contents are desired).

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