Hi there,

I'm new to libcurl and am having some problems with memory
consumption. I have a program that generates an XML message that is
fired off to a web server when it reaches a certain number of entries.
 The C++ code for the operation that invokes libcurl is wrapped in an
"HttpConnection" object. That object is called like ("message" is the
pre-configured XML message object):

string * xml = new string;
xml->append(message->toString());
HttpConnection * connection = new HttpConnection(xml);
delete connection;
delete xml;

Without fail, my memory usage for this program increases by 12 - 16
bytes on each iteration. If I comment out the "HttpConnection" and
"delete connection" lines, things stabilize, so I'm confident the leak
is in that code. I'm guessing that I'm just missing a "cleanup" call
somewhere, but I've been searching and cannot figure out what it could
be.

The HttpConnection class header looks this this:

#include <curl/curl.h>
#include <curl/types.h>
#include <curl/easy.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

using namespace std;

class HttpConnection
{
private:
    CURL *curl;
public:
    HttpConnection(string * xml);
    virtual ~HttpConnection();
};

And the class itself looks like this:

#include "HttpConnection.hpp"

using namespace std;

HttpConnection::HttpConnection(string * xml) {
    curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_NOTHING);
    curl = curl_easy_init();

    if(curl) {
        string * message = new string;
        message->append("xml=");
        message->append(*xml);

        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, message->size());
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, message->c_str());
        FILE * nullFile = fopen("/dev/null", "w");
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, nullFile);
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL,
"http://localhost:8080/server/servlet/Insert");

        curl_easy_perform(curl);
        delete message;
    }
}

HttpConnection::~HttpConnection()
{
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
    curl_global_cleanup();
}

Any help is appreciated!
Received on 2008-06-18