On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> This seemingly small idea can have a potentially large impact on all sorts
> of APIs and code without any significant benefit. Like for example how would
> the application free the buffer in which the response was received? What if
> the application also wants response headers, would they be returned in a
> separate buffer? What if the server returns a never-ending response-body?

You left out a pointer does not convey length, making binary transfers
harder to deal with as you'd need to use curl_getinfo() with some new
parameter to query for length or some other means of conveying the
information.

Lars Nilsson
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