On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, svante karlsson wrote:

> I'm new to libcurl so this might be obvious...
>
> If I do a HTTP get with a
> ....
> curl_easy_setopt(_curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_callback_std_stream);
> curl_easy_setopt(_curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, ostream);
> ....
> then my callback "write_callback_std_stream" gets called with the
> content of the request.

No, it gets called with the content of the *response*. The request is what you
send to the server and that is not passed to the write callback.

> however using the same construct as above

> my callback gets called first with each response header then with the
> (my) desired content - while the headers are interesting is there a
> way of getting rid of those before the callback?

You should only get HTTP headers in the WRITEFUNCTION callback if you have
CURLOPT_HEADER set.

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