On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, Clément Gregoire via curl-library wrote:
I'm using CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION to read/parse headers, and it'd be useful
for me if I could replace some characters with for example the '\0'. Typical
usage would be for strtok. Is this allowed ? I know the header callback
buffer member is `char*` and not `const char*` but I still wanted to make
sure.
A fair question as it isn't specifically mentioned in the documentation. We
should probably add something to this effect.
I would strongly discourage doing that. The prototype and callbacks should be
considered a 'const char *'. Not using that was just an omission (by me) and
stuck like this to not rock the boat.
You will *likely* be able to write to that buffer without it hurting, but
that's not something we can guarantee will continue to work nor that it worked
correctly in older libcurl versions.
That's also why strtok_r() and friends were invented! ;-)
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