Setting post_body to nil does not reset data posted in http(:GET)

[geronime]

Hello,

after resetting post_body to nil the next http(:GET) request still sends the old POST data:

> c = Curl::Easy.new 'http://127.0.0.1:10000'
=> #<Curl::Easy http://127.0.0.1:10000>
> c.http :GET
Curl::Err::GotNothingError: Curl::Err::GotNothingError
from /home/geronime/.../curb-0.8.1/lib/curl/easy.rb:60:in `perform'

Netcat output:

$ nc -lp 10000
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:10000
Accept: */*

^C

OK. Set post_body and repeat:

> c.post_body = 'param=value'
=> "param=value"
> c.http :GET
Curl::Err::GotNothingError: Curl::Err::GotNothingError
from /home/geronime/.../curb-0.8.1/lib/curl/easy.rb:60:in `perform'

nc output:

$ nc -lp 10000
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:10000
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 11
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

param=value^C

OK. Reset post_body to nil and perform again:

> c.post_body = nil
=> nil
> c.http :GET
Curl::Err::GotNothingError: Curl::Err::GotNothingError
from /home/geronime/.../curb-0.8.1/lib/curl/easy.rb:60:in `perform'

nc output:

$ nc -lp 10000
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:10000
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 11
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

param=value^C

Not OK, post data sent even after the post_body was reset to nil. Reset to empty data and retry:

> c.post_body = ''
=> ""
> c.http :GET
Curl::Err::GotNothingError: Curl::Err::GotNothingError
from /home/geronime/.../curb-0.8.1/lib/curl/easy.rb:60:in `perform'

nc output:

$ nc -lp 10000
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:10000
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

^C

Correct, can be used as workaround.

Could you please fix that setting post_body=nil clears the data posted?

Thanks,

geronime

[geronime]

Hello, any update on this one?

[JaromirDvoracek]

Nice bug, fix would be useful!

[taf2]

try:

   easy.reset

?

[geronime]

Correct me if I am wrong, but would it not reset settings (i.e. timeout) and cookies as well? That is not what I want.
I need to reset just post body of the handle.

[geronime]

Fix done - it is necessary to set CURLOPT_HTTPGET to 1:
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTHTTPGET