Bugs

Here you can write your found bugs:

REDIRECT_TIME BUG:
redirect_time didn’t find the correct version of curl so always give the warning:

warning: Installed libcurl is too old to support redirect_time</pre>
(latest curb(from this git), curl 7.19.2(latest as 30/11/08))

bq.Looking into this libcurl changed from using #define constants for these parts of the library to using an enum.

bq.Current output: “0.174766” “0.863931”
URL STORING BUG:

The url gives two 301(Moved permanently) and one 200, only the first url(search.ebay.com) is stored and the last(200 shop.ebay.com is skipped, normal behavior?):

This is normal behavior.  What you want is the last_effective_url. [http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_getinfo.html see libcurl documentation for details].

def expand(url)
  request = Curl::Easy.perform(url) do |curl|
    curl.follow_location = true
    curl.verbose = true
  end
  puts request.url
end

web = expand('http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=ipod')

output:
curl-verbose*
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=ipod

instead of:
(from curl-verbose*)
> GET /items/_W0QQ_nkwZipodQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZR40QQ_mdoZ HTTP/1.1
Host: shop.ebay.com