On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Woods wrote:

> I know the cause of repeating requesting the same url, rather than fetching
> the HTTP Location. It is because my URL contains a '\n" at the end. When I
> remove this "\n" from url string, libcurl returns to normal. Well, I will
> fix my code, but curious if libcurl can improve somewhere to counter this
> drawback.

libcurl is deliberately very liberal in what it accepts to allow the user to
craft things that aren't strictly kosher. Of course we could change that or we
could introduce a "strict parsing" option, but I'm not convinced we really
need that.

Anyone else have any opinion in this matter?

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