luckily the man page for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS already contains that info: The data pointed to is NOT copied by the library: as a consequence, it must be preserved by the calling application until the associated transfer finishes. This behaviour can be changed (so libcurl does copy the data) by setting the *CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS <https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man3/CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS.3.html>(3)* option.
/HH Den tors 20 apr. 2023 kl 13:00 skrev Andreas Falkenhahn via curl-library < curl-library@lists.haxx.se>: > On 20.04.2023 at 12:31 Timothe Litt via curl-library wrote: > > > If there are any cases where the string is not copied and must be > > retained, the documentation should say so explicitly. > > +1 > > To make matters more confusing, I've also found this information: > > "There are currently over 80 options for curl_easy_setopt() that accept a > string as its third argument. When a string is set in a handle, libcurl > immediately copies that data so that the application does not have to keep > the data around for the time the transfer is being done - with one notable > exception: CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS." > > Found here: https://everything.curl.dev/libcurl/options/strings > > If that is true, maybe the note "The application does not have to keep the > string around after setting this option" should be killed from all > CURLOPT_* > pages and there should only be a note for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS that says that > the string isn't copied. > > -- > Best regards, > Andreas Falkenhahn mailto: > andr...@falkenhahn.com > > -- > Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-library > Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html >
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