Hi,

is there a simple way to make curl_easy_perform() not to output any
data? I just want to HTTP-POST something to a web interface and are not
interested in the server's reply.

I first thought maybe setting CURLOPT_WRITEDATA to NULL could do the
trick, but then libcurl simply segfaults (for obvious reasons).
Setting CURLOPT_NOBODY also does not work, it seems to force the use of
HEAD, regardless if set CURLOPT_HTTPPOST before or after it. (Even
though the spec says "When setting CURLOPT_HTTPPOST, it will
automatically set CURLOPT_NOBODY to 0 (since 7.14.1)." and I'm using
7.26.0, but that's a different story.)

Right now I help myself by using a dummy function with
CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION that just returns size*nmemb to make libcurl
happy. That's work fine, but it seems to me quite cumbersome (and a
waste of resources, albeit a small one).

Anything I missed?

Regards,
Jakob
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