[AXIS2C-809] libcurl ignores error on http send, leaks memory, et.al.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: transport/http
• Environment: Windows, Visual Studio 2005, building libcurl version using libcurl 7.17.1
• Assignee: Dinesh Weerapurage
• Reporter: Bill Mitchell
• Created: 05/Dec/07 23:01
• Updated: 07/Apr/20 17:48
• Resolved: 11/Dec/07 11:59

Description

When using the libcurl version of Axis2C, I inadvertently provided an invalid URL address. It turns out that axis2_libcurl ignores an error sending the request and goes ahead and tries to parse the non-existent response. The preferred behavior would be to match that of axis2_http_sender_send in its normal configuration, and return AXIS2_FAILURE. It would be nice if the actual curl error were logged.

When investigating this, I noticed that axis2_libcurl allocates a axis2_libcurl structure on each send, and this structure is never freed.

I also noticed that the routine was not well behaved when the allocation of the axis2_libcurl structure failed.