Idle Hacking

Here it is version 0.2.6.

This version fixes a bug when sending an HTTP POST on apple/darwin Mac OS.

curl_easy_setopt( m_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1 );
// set the buffer size to copy
curl_easy_setopt( m_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, value.length() );
curl_easy_setopt( m_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, value.c_str() );
// copy the buffer
curl_easy_setopt( m_handle, CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS, value.c_str() );

I had to set the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS before calling CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS.

In my next release I hope to have support for setting arbitrary HTTP headers. I'll also be working on a streaming response interface. In my C++ library I already have a working example that lets the response from the event loop be written directly to a file descriptor. To expose this in Ruby I would make it so any IO object can be passed into the request method via a :stream => io parameter. This only posses one interesting issue that the Ruby StringIO could be valid to pass, but my implementation would not be able to pull a file descriptor from the StringIO object. Perhaps, when it's an IO object without a file descriptor my implementation could create a pipe fd on behave of the caller?