Greetings Monks.

Short question. I am getting unwanted output from a module that I'm using WWW::Curl::new. i.e. It's printing information to STDOUT when run in the CGI and doesn't appear to give me an option to turn that output off.

My question is: Does anyone know of a way of capturing STDOUT when a third party module spits out unwanted information? And, does anyone know of a way to turn off the information that is spit out of WWW::Curl::new?

Here is a sample of the WWW::Curl::new code that I'm using. It is not a full working example as you'll need a cURL server to test it on, and I'm unable to allow access to my server. 

    my ($headers, $body) = ('','');
    
    use WWW::Curl::easy;
    my $curl = WWW::Curl::easy->new();
    my $CURLcode = $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, \&callback);
    $CURLcode = WWW::Curl::easy::setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $broker_ur
+l);
    $CURLcode .= WWW::Curl::easy::setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER,\$heade
+rs);
    $CURLcode .= WWW::Curl::easy::setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $p
+ost_vars);
    $CURLcode .= WWW::Curl::easy::perform($curl);
    WWW::Curl::easy::cleanup($curl);

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The callback() sub references above: 
sub callback {
    my ($data,$pointer)=@_;
    $params{'data'} .= $data;
    return length($data);
}

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This is the unwanted information that is spit out: 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:42:55 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
Accept-Ranges: bytes
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.2
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

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Any help is appreciated, Cheers.

In reply to Unwanted output to STDOUT in WWW::Curl::new by snookmz

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