According to the libcurl API docs we use curl_easy_setopt() to assign a
URL, but when using curl_easy_getinfo() we use CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL to
retrieve an _effective_ URL. Neither the libcurl docs nor Google point
to a definition of the term "effective URL" so I'm wondering: is this
just a turn of phrase in the libcurl docs or is the original URL
transformed in some way to become an effective URL?

Thanks,
MB
Received on 2008-07-25