I rebuild the app each time, but I'm certain it's a result of the inclusion
of regex.h because when I comment out simply the line '#include <regex.h>'
libcurl is able to get the whole page. I've toggled including regex.h
repeatedly and every time it remains consistent with the behavior I
described in the last post.

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 05:54:15PM -0500, Chris Dickson wrote:
> > I've been using libcurl for retrieving web pages and noticed an odd
> problem
> > when I started to incorporate regular expressions into my program using
> > regex.h. Before I included regex.h in the program I would be able to
> retreive a
> > web page of any size in its entirety, but after the inclusion of regex.h
> the
> > HTML is getting cut off at what seems like an arbitrary spot in the file.
> The
> > only thing I can think of is that there is some constant with the same
> name
> > defined in both curl.h and regex.h that is unintentionaly limiting the
> amount
> > of data that curl will download. I have not received any compiler
> warnings that
> > would suggest that though. No function call to any of the regex.h
> functions is
> > needed for the problem to arise, simply the inclusion of the header file
> is
> > enough to cause it.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this happen / know a fix to this problem?
>
> Are you sure it isn't just a coincidence? It could be a preexisting problem
> in
> the app that happened to show itself after that change. Are you rebuilding
> libcurl when this happens or just the app?
>
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Received on 2009-02-22