char*
HttpGet::get (const char* url)
{
- if (!_curl) {
+ _status = _result = -1;
+ if (!_curl || !url) {
return NULL;
}
if (!persist) {
free (mem.data);
- }
+ } // otherwise caller is expected to have free()d or re-used it.
+
+ mem.data = NULL;
mem.size = 0;
curl_easy_setopt (_curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);