Matthias Petofalvi filed this report in the feedback
section, I moved it here:
The new "%{content_type}" makes curl crash when it
fails to properly download a file.
For example if you do this with curl 7.9.8 (win32) in
Windows XP:
curl.exe -w %%{content_type} badproto://foo/bar
You get a Dr. Watson window:
AppName: curl.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: msvcrt.dll
ModVer: 7.0.2600.0 Offset: 0002dcd8
I guess some sprintf() variant is passed an
uninitialized string pointer...
Logged In: YES
user_id=1110
Fixed in CVS just now (src/writeout.c 1.13)
Thanks for reporting!