On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Michael Mastroianni wrote:

> Suppose I want to get the effective url for a download. My understanding
> is that I do:

> curl_easy_getinfo(curlHandle_, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL, &newurl);
>
> Now, I don't want to leak. Do I curl_free(newurl)?

...

> I think the last one is right, from the documentation, but I wanted to be
> sure.

The documentation says nothing about needing to free the data and you
shouldn't.

You want the curl_easy_getinfo man page to explicitly say you should not free
it? Would that have helped you?

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