From e3ef8b66a185a2982a7812ab19d2ee9970cb610f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:43:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] the --dump-header option now only creates the file when it
 needs to, not any sooner

---
 src/main.c | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index ca1f4e2d3..a6bf56bb6 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -859,6 +859,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
   char errorbuffer[URLGET_ERROR_SIZE];
 
   struct OutStruct outs;
+  struct OutStruct heads;
 
   char *url = NULL;
 #ifdef GLOBURL
@@ -1086,14 +1087,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     /* open file for output: */
     if(strcmp(config.headerfile,"-"))
     {
-      headerfilep=(FILE *) fopen(config.headerfile, "wb");
-      if (!headerfilep) {
-	helpf("Can't open '%s'!\n", config.headerfile);
-	return URG_WRITE_ERROR;
-      }
+      heads.filename = config.headerfile;
+      headerfilep=NULL;
     }
     else
       headerfilep=stdout;
+    heads.stream = headerfilep;
   }
 
   if(outs.stream && isatty(fileno(outs.stream)) &&
@@ -1147,7 +1146,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                     URGTAG_CRLF, config.crlf,
                     URGTAG_QUOTE, config.quote,
                     URGTAG_POSTQUOTE, config.postquote,
-                    URGTAG_WRITEHEADER, headerfilep,
+                    URGTAG_WRITEHEADER, &heads,
                     URGTAG_COOKIEFILE, config.cookiefile,
                     URGTAG_SSLVERSION, config.ssl_version,
                     URGTAG_TIMECONDITION, config.timecond,
@@ -1165,6 +1164,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     /* it wasn't directed to stdout or stderr so close the file! */
     fclose(config.errors);
 
+  if(!headerfilep && heads.stream)
+    fclose(heads.stream);
+
   if(urlbuffer)
     free(urlbuffer);
   if (config.outfile && outs.stream)