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Re: CURLOPT_POST with no CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 16:28:40 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 4 Mar 2020, Jason Proctor via curl-library wrote:

> The issue is that if you specify CURLOPT_POST but don't specify
> CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, then the library sticks in sending mode and
> doesn't call the header or write callbacks, despite the fact that the
> server has happily sent a response. Setting CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to the
> empty string results in the correct behaviour.

That's not expected behavior nor does it match what existing libcurl tests
verify that works. For example in test 1514:

  https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/tests/libtest/lib1514.c

Can you provide a test code that reproduces this? 

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