On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Paul Johnson wrote:

> I got myself into trouble by passing a local string into the proxy address
> setup and that was corrupting as it's not copied inside curl and I had
> assumed it was. Did anyone run into this before ?

Many people have. Most of them blame libcurl for a while until they discover
they didn't read the docs properly! ;-)

> If so, maybe you found the same deal with another of the functions ?

All options that pass strings to the library are subject to the same rules.
This is documented.

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