On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Jonathan Bourgeois wrote:

> Yes I can elaborate. Let us assume that the input I've gathered from a user
> is some Japanese representation of an item code, perhaps the name "Tokyo".
> The data I am posting to the server would then be something like:
> itemCode=tokyo. I have to properly wrap this data. In my application, I
> have defined a "smartchar" which, depending on compile options either will
> be a standard char, or a wchar_t. My dilemma then becomes doing the
> following:
>
> smartchar* data = getDataFromUser();
> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, data);
>
> Will the above call properly handle what I have passed? For the sake of
> discussion, I have included my definition of smartchar below:

This particular case might fail if the data contains a zero-byte that you want
to include in the data you send (not that URL-encoded data can legally contain
zero bytes). So if doing strlen() isn't good enough to find the size, you must
also set CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE.

Then it'll work!

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