On 5/19/16, Michael Kaufmann <mail_at_michael-kaufmann.ch> wrote:
> > looking at the SessionHandle struct, and wondering: how do people
> retrieve current values from the structure?
>
> There is no official API to retrieve the current settings.
> curl_easy_getinfo() is not the counterpart of curl_easy_setopt(), and
> there is no curl_easy_getopt().
>
> For options like CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER and CURLOPT_CONNECT_TO, applications
> need to keep the list until the transfer completes, because libcurl will
> not copy the list. Therefore applications that use these options must
> keep a reference to the list anyway.

That sounds like a good description, and is illuminating. Thanks.

-bch

> Regards,
> Michael
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