C Programing - Return libcurl http response to string to the calling function

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Published on 2012-12-16T21:46:12Z Indexed on 2012/12/16 23:03 UTC
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I have a homework and i need somehow to compare two http responses. I am writing it on C (dumb decision) and i use libcurl to make things easier. I am calling the function that uses libcurl to http request and response from another function and i want to return the http response to it. Anyway, the code below doesn't work, any ideas?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>
#include <string.h>

size_t write_data(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *stream) {
    size_t written;
    written = fwrite(ptr, size, nmemb, stream);
    return written;
}

char *handle_url(void) {
    CURL *curl;
    char *fp;
    CURLcode res;
    char *url = "http://www.yahoo.com";
    curl = curl_easy_init();
    if (curl) {
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_data);
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, fp);
        res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
        if(res != CURLE_OK)
                fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",   curl_easy_strerror(res));

        curl_easy_cleanup(curl);

        //printf("\n%s", fp);
    }
    return fp;
}

This solution C libcurl get output into a string works, but not in my case because i want to return this string to the calling function.

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