RE: CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION and buffer modifications

Thanks for the quick answer, I'll fallback to having a copy of the substring then !

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-----Message d'origine-----
De : Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel_at_haxx.se]
Envoyé : jeudi 3 octobre 2019 11:56
À : Clément Gregoire via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Cc : Clément Gregoire <CGregoire_at_asobostudio.com>
Objet : Re: CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION and buffer modifications

On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, Clément Gregoire via curl-library wrote:

> I'm using CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION to read/parse headers, and it'd be
> useful for me if I could replace some characters with for example the
> '\0'. Typical usage would be for strtok. Is this allowed ? I know the
> header callback buffer member is `char*` and not `const char*` but I
> still wanted to make sure.

A fair question as it isn't specifically mentioned in the documentation. We should probably add something to this effect.

I would strongly discourage doing that. The prototype and callbacks should be considered a 'const char *'. Not using that was just an omission (by me) and stuck like this to not rock the boat.

You will *likely* be able to write to that buffer without it hurting, but that's not something we can guarantee will continue to work nor that it worked correctly in older libcurl versions.

That's also why strtok_r() and friends were invented! ;-)

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