Re: Is it possible to use data from the response header to a POST in a subsequent GET?

[Robert I. <cor...@gm...>]

Hi Gary

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Gary Fitts <ga...@in...> wrote:

> Hello Robert,
>
> I have my changes working now, although I want to test them a bit more
> before letting them out. I'm having one problem, though. In the
> application I'm testing, the very first URL is a POST request using a
> FORM_STRING.


Great!

>
>
> This seems to cause a failure in loader.c, setup_curl_handle_appl().
> The code is copied below.
>
> When this code is called, cctx->post_data has been allocated but not
> initialized, so it's an empty string. This causes the condition "else
> if (cctx->post_data && cctx->post_data[0])" to fail, and we drop
> through to the "post_data is NULL" error.
>
> I've fixed this by commenting out the second condition:
>        else if (cctx->post_data /* && cctx->post_data[0] */)
>
> So far this seems to work for me, but I wonder if I'm missing
> something that might cause an error somewhere else.
>

Actually, when cctx->post_data is allocated,
it should be set zero to the first char, like
cctx->post_data[0] = '\0';

You may wish add this fix to your patches.
Thanks.

Robert