I'm working on a program which will download lyrics from sites like AZLyrics. I'm using libcurl. It's my code lyricsDownloader.cpp #include "lyricsDownloader.h" #include <curl/curl.h> #include <cstring> #include <iostream> #define DEBUG 1 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// size_t lyricsDownloader::write_data_to_var(char *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userdata) // this function is a static member function { ostringstream * stream = (ostringstream*) userdata; size_t count = size * nmemb; stream->write(ptr, count); return count; } string AZLyricsDownloader::toProviderCode() const { /*this creates an url*/ } CURLcode AZLyricsDownloader::download() { CURL * handle; CURLcode err; ostringstream buff; handle = curl_easy_init(); if (! handle) return static_cast<CURLcode>(-1); // set verbose if debug on curl_easy_setopt( handle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, DEBUG ); curl_easy_setopt( handle, CURLOPT_URL, toProviderCode().c_str() ); // set the download url to the generated one curl_easy_setopt(handle, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &buff); curl_easy_setopt(handle, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, &AZLyricsDownloader::write_data_to_var); err = curl_easy_perform(handle); // The segfault should be somewhere here - after calling the function but before it ends cerr << "cleanup\n"; curl_easy_cleanup(handle); // copy the contents to text variable lyrics = buff.str(); return err; } main.cpp #include <QString> #include <QTextEdit> #include <iostream> #include "lyricsDownloader.h" int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { AZLyricsDownloader dl(argv[1], argv[2]); dl.perform(); QTextEdit qtexted(QString::fromStdString(dl.lyrics)); cout << qPrintable(qtexted.toPlainText()); return 0; } When running ./maelyrica Anthrax Madhouse I'm getting this logged from curl * About to connect() to azlyrics.com port 80 (#0) * Trying 174.142.163.250... * connected * Connected to azlyrics.com (174.142.163.250) port 80 (#0) > GET /lyrics/anthrax/madhouse.html HTTP/1.1 Host: azlyrics.com Accept: */* < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently < Server: nginx/1.0.12 < Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:59:21 GMT < Content-Type: text/html < Content-Length: 185 < Connection: keep-alive < Location: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/anthrax/madhouse.html < Segmentation fault Strangely, the file is there. The same error is displayed when there's no such page (redirect to azlyrics.com mainpage) What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance EDIT: I made the function for writing data static, but this changes nothing. Even wget seems to have problems $ wget http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/anthrax/madhouse.html --2012-07-06 10:36:05-- http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/anthrax/madhouse.html Resolving www.azlyrics.com... 174.142.163.250 Connecting to www.azlyrics.com|174.142.163.250|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... No data received. Retrying. Why does opening the page in a browser work and wget/curl not? EDIT2: After adding this: curl_easy_setopt(handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); The log is: * About to connect() to azlyrics.com port 80 (#0) * Trying 174.142.163.250... * connected * Connected to azlyrics.com (174.142.163.250) port 80 (#0) > GET /lyrics/anthrax/madhouse.html HTTP/1.1 Host: azlyrics.com Accept: */* < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently < Server: nginx/1.0.12 < Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:09:47 GMT < Content-Type: text/html < Content-Length: 185 < Connection: keep-alive < Location: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/anthrax/madhouse.html < * Ignoring the response-body * Connection #0 to host azlyrics.com left intact * Issue another request to this URL: 'http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/anthrax/madhouse.html' * About to connect() to www.azlyrics.com port 80 (#1) * Trying 174.142.163.250... * connected * Connected to www.azlyrics.com (174.142.163.250) port 80 (#1) > GET /lyrics/anthrax/madhouse.html HTTP/1.1 Host: www.azlyrics.com Accept: */* < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Server: nginx/1.0.12 < Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:09:47 GMT < Content-Type: text/html < Transfer-Encoding: chunked < Connection: keep-alive < Segmentation fault