On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Rich Bramante wrote:

> I had considered this approach but was fearful that in the case where
> the server was returning a large amount of data quickly, curl would be
> in a constant read-callback loop and and my library would not be able
> to return control back out to the caller to start draining the data
> possibly causing my library to buffer the entire response in memory.
> Since the client can download an arbitrarily large amount of data I
> did not pursue this.

Right, but libcurl will not "read everything that comes until there's nothing
more to read" so it should be a finite number of bytes.

I would say the biggest problem is if you use automatic decompression of data
as then it can probably become a significant amount if a very easy
compressible data stream is sent.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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