So why do you use realloc for that? And is using curl really necessary? Do you use some specific options that QHttp can't handle?
I used that in the first place because thats what the example from CURL themselves used. For my purposes, since I don't need the whole data chunk that is pulled in, I've removed that part and use pretty much this for making the data within the callback usable:

Qt Code: 
  1. resData = QString::fromUtf8 ((char *)ptr);
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As for why I was using CURL instead of QHttp, It was mainly because I didn't see QHttp supporting HTTPS (at least in the free edition that I have at the moment) and I was already pretty familiar with CURL's functionality as a standalone program and using it in PHP. This is my first attempt at using it with C++ though.

My problem is probably related to my unfamiliarity to using a variable in the way I need to. The static member code that you posted looks very close to what I had, I'm taking a look at it and see what I was missing.