problem with cURL

[missil9]

Hey I have been kicking myself with this problem for a week now and i was wondering if anyone can help. I am implementing cURL to fetch source code from a website. I am using fairly common code to do so. If I implement the functionality in my main.cpp, it works perfectly fine. when I create a class called url_handler to do it for me, it segfaults and returns really large sizes from the writer function. i literally copied and pasted the code from my main.cpp test to the url_handler.cpp so nothing is different. Any help would be greatly apprectiated. Here is my code:

#include <url_handler.h>

size_t url_handler::writer(char *data, size_t size, size_t nmemb, std::string *buffer)
{
        int result = 0;
        if(buffer != NULL)
        {
                  buffer->append(data, size * nmemb);
                  result = size * nmemb;
        }
        
        return result;
} 

std::string url_handler::fetch(const std::string &url)
{
     CURL *curl;
     CURLcode source;
             
     std::string buffer;
      
     curl = curl_easy_init();

     if(curl)
     {
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, &url_handler::writer);
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &buffer );
                     
           curl_easy_perform(curl);

           //always cleanup
           curl_easy_cleanup(curl);        
     }
                    
     return buffer;
}

Thank you.

[missil9]

anyone?

[MosaicFuneral]

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/getinmemory.html

[missil9]

thanks for the reply. I made the function static within the class and it worked :S