I'm having a problem with the realloc function. I'm using C only (so no vector) with LibCurl. The problem I'm having is that I'm getting the following error (realloc(): invalid next size) on the 12th iteration of the write_data function (the function I pass to Curl as a callback, it is called each time libcurl has some data to pass back (data is passed in chunks) ).
Trace:
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Source:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>
#include <string.h>
char * Data; //stores the data
size_t RunningSize;
int write_data( char *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *stream )
{
size_t ThisSize = (size * nmemb); //Stores the size of the data to be stored
size_t DataLen = strlen( Data ); //length of the data so far
RunningSize = (RunningSize + ThisSize ); //update running size (used as new size)
Data = realloc( Data, RunningSize ); //get new mem location (on the 12th iteration, this fails)
strcat( Data, ptr); //add data in ptr to Data
return ThisSize; //the function must return the size of the data it received so cURL knows things went ok.
}
int main( )
{
CURL *curl;
CURLcode res;
const char * UserAgent = "";
Data = malloc(1); //so realloc will work
RunningSize += 1;
curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl)
{
curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0 );
curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.google.co.uk/" );
curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_data);
curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, UserAgent );
curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1 );
//preform request.
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
//output the data (debugging purposes)
puts( Data );
//cleanup
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
free(Data);
}
return 0;
}
Thanks in advance,