On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Anna Gulaev wrote:

> I used to be able to send data to a web server from a c++ program using
> curl. Now all that's being received is thirty dashes followed by six
> hexidecimal numbers, like this:

So your program worked fine until one day it just stopped working and now
sends something else? Somehow it feels like somehting was changed to cause the
changed behavior...

> ------------------------------07ac4edfb36c

This looks like a mime separator libcurl uses when sending multipart
formposts. I'd suggest you use CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION and/or wireshark to get
to see exactly what libcurl sends and what the server responds.

> // suck in as much data as is ready
> while( CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM == curl_multi_perform(
> CurlMultiHandle, &CurlStillRunning)); //note semicolon

Note that this loop will of course not perform the entire transfer...

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