a NULL pointer. Now, we treat a missing CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS as if there is
no data to send.
if(HTTPREQ_POST == data->httpreq) {
/* this is the simple POST, using x-www-form-urlencoded style */
+ if(!data->postfields) {
+ /*
+ * This is an attempt to do a POST without having anything to
+ * actually send. Let's make a NULL pointer equal "" here. Good/bad
+ * ?
+ */
+ data->postfields = "";
+ data->postfieldsize = 0; /* it might been set to something illegal,
+ anything > 0 would be! */
+ }
+
if(!checkheaders(data, "Content-Length:"))
/* we allow replacing this header, although it isn't very wise to
actually set your own */