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Re: Question about CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER

From: Rich Gray <rgray_at_plustechnologies.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 17:09:20 -0400

Martin Galvan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER docs say:
>
> "You must keep the associated buffer available until libcurl no longer
> needs it. Failing to do so will cause very odd behavior or even crashes.
> libcurl will need it until you call curl_easy_cleanup or you set the same
> option again to use a different pointer."

I believe it means don't do things like set it to an automatic variable in
a function and then call libcurl after exiting the function. Don't point
it at malloc'd space and then call libcurl after freeing said space, etc.

Rich
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Received on 2018-06-04