Re: [xml] [PATCH] xmlIO HTTPS handler using libcurl [version 2]

[joel reed <joelwreed gmail com>]

Michael Day wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> >   I'm sure other people have used curl in a libxml2 context, their 
> > feedback
> > would be welcome.
>
> We use curl with libxml2 in Prince by specifying our own entity 
> loader. One downside of this approach is that we cannot fully support 
> the "referer" HTTP header, as the entity loader is just given a URL to 
> load but is not given the URL of the referring document. I guess that 
> using curl as an IO handler directly within libxml2 would avoid this 
> issue?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael
yes, i believe this would avoid this issue. Acc'd to 
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html,
you would use CURLOPT_REFERER

jr