On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, raoul cridlig wrote:

[sorry for not having replied earlier, I've been away from my mail the last
two weeks something]

> how to prevent from creating an empty local file when I try to download a
> non existing remote file ?

Well, you know the file exists when your callback gets called. Delay the file
creation until the callback is called the first time...

That's how curl tool itself does it.

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    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/