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Re: libcurl produces 0byte files for some refered links

From: Wei Weng <wweng_at_acedsl.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:16:36 -0400

mr orgi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have some problems using libcurl in my program.
>
> if i run it for example for all sublinks of news.google.com
> <http://news.google.com> some links are stored as 0byte files.
>
> some examples of these links:
> http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=nl&tab=nm
> <http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=nl&tab=nm>
> http://www.google.com/calendar/render?hl=nl&tab=nc
> <http://www.google.com/calendar/render?hl=nl&tab=nc>
>
> these are all links which are refered to another link.. i have read the
> manpages and FOLLOWLOCATION should be the solution for this problem. but
> for some links it still not works.
>
> my curl options are the following:
>
> CURL *curl;
> curl = curl_easy_init();
> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, link);
> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, -1);
> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_data);
> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, file);
> curl_easy_perform(curl);
> curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
>
> libcurl version: 7.16.4
> Visual Studio 2008
> libcurl compiled as static Multi Threaded
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Jan

What are the links that it doesn't work for?

Thanks
Wei
Received on 2008-10-07