On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Alex Loukissas wrote:

>> Why can't you just use the existing void * argument?
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this contain the data read by curl to
> be written to the file? At least this is what's passed onto fwrite( ).

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTWRITEFUNCTION

And the quote from the above link:

   "Set the userdata argument with the CURLOPT_WRITEDATA option"

IOW: no, you set that pointer yourself to whatever you want. It is only if you
don't use the callback it should be a FILE *.

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