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RE: "easier" interface (was: Redirect Ouput to a variable in dll)

From: Joe Mason <jmason_at_rim.com>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:50:10 +0000

> From: curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] on
> behalf of Saravana kumar [saravanakumar.a.o_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 1:35 PM
> To: libcurl development
> Subject: Re: "easier" interface (was: Redirect Ouput to a variable in dll)
>
> > 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?
>
> Yep, that's the point. That's the design of the API. Now, i
> understand. But what i asked was is there any official wrapper for
> doing such things? (OR) maybe in future? Moved myself from C, to
> Delphi wrapper instead of this (And Regex).

It doesn't seem like this would need an official wrapper. A third-party could write a simple library to do this, just by calling the existing curl functions, without having to change curl itself.

Joe
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