Index: libmrss-0.17.2/src/mrss.h
===================================================================
--- libmrss-0.17.2.orig/src/mrss.h	2007-04-02 14:42:55.000000000 +0200
+++ libmrss-0.17.2/src/mrss.h	2007-05-19 20:56:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -523,6 +523,22 @@
 					 mrss_t **	mrss,
 					 mrss_options_t	* options);
 
+/**
+ * Like the previous function but you take ownership of the downloaded buffer in case of success
+ * \param url The url to be parsed
+ * \param mrss the pointer to your data struct
+ * \param options a pointer to a options data struct
+ * \param feed_content a pointer to the buffer with the document. This is not NULL terminated
+ * \param feed_size the size of the buffer above
+ * \return the error code
+ */
+mrss_error_t	mrss_parse_url_and_transfer_buffer
+					(char *		url,
+					 mrss_t **	mrss,
+					 mrss_options_t	* options,
+                     char **    feed_content,
+                     int  *     feed_size);
+
 /** 
  * Parses a file and creates the data struct of the feed RSS url
  * \param file The file to be parsed
Index: libmrss-0.17.2/src/mrss_parser.c
===================================================================
--- libmrss-0.17.2.orig/src/mrss_parser.c	2007-05-19 20:47:08.000000000 +0200
+++ libmrss-0.17.2/src/mrss_parser.c	2007-05-19 20:56:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -1075,13 +1075,20 @@
 mrss_error_t
 mrss_parse_url (char *url, mrss_t ** ret)
 {
-  return mrss_parse_url_with_options (url, ret, NULL);
+  return mrss_parse_url_and_transfer_buffer (url, ret, NULL, NULL, NULL);
 }
 
 mrss_error_t
 mrss_parse_url_with_options (char *url, mrss_t ** ret,
 			     mrss_options_t * options)
 {
+  return mrss_parse_url_and_transfer_buffer (url, ret, options, NULL, NULL);
+}
+
+mrss_error_t
+mrss_parse_url_and_transfer_buffer (char *url, mrss_t ** ret,
+			     mrss_options_t * options, char **download_buffer, int *download_size)
+{
   nxml_t *doc;
   mrss_error_t err;
   char *buffer;
@@ -1117,7 +1124,8 @@
 
   if (nxml_parse_buffer (doc, buffer, size) != NXML_OK)
     {
-      free (buffer);
+      if (!download_buffer)
+        free (buffer);
       nxml_free (doc);
 
       return MRSS_ERR_PARSER;
@@ -1127,7 +1135,8 @@
     {
       if (!((*ret)->file = strdup (url)))
 	{
-	  free (buffer);
+      if (!download_buffer)
+	    free (buffer);
 
 	  mrss_free (*ret);
 	  nxml_free (doc);
@@ -1138,9 +1147,15 @@
       (*ret)->size = size;
     }
 
-  free (buffer);
+  if (!download_buffer)
+    free (buffer);
   nxml_free (doc);
 
+  /* transfer ownership */
+  if (download_buffer)
+    *download_buffer = buffer;
+  if (download_size)
+    *download_size = size;
   return err;
 }